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As a Public Administrator, a professional fiduciary serving Waterford & Clarkston, the issue of executing a DNR order [Do Not Resuscitate] continually arises in my law practice. The issue has been politically charged for years. DNRs have been governed until this week by the “Do-Not-Resuscitate” Procedure Act.

It is Tuesday at 9.30am and I am in the booth. The booth is a tiny box where I have the honor of talking to my client through an inch of bullet-proof glass.

Later this week, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is scheduled to announce, in his State-of-the-State address, an executive initiative allowing the limited use of medical marijuana under a set of narrow circumstances.

This one comes to us from Southern Florida, courtesy of our blogging friend, Jeanne Hannah. A family court judge in Palm Beach County took a divorcing couple to task in a tersely-worded opinion

In the wake of a pair of SCOTUS decisions, Graham vs Florida, and more recently, Miller vs Alabama, holding that state juvenile lifer statutes violate the 8th Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, U.S.

In 1936, marijuana was vilified as the harvest of the Devil; the gateway drug to the hard stuff. Reefer Madness was a propaganda campaign that swept the country in the years following prohibition.

This is our 100th post; thanks to all our readers and to the folks that post comments to this blog. It has taken us several years to muster 100 posts here at the electronic divorce attorney. Check out the very first post from 2009.

As a Public Administrator, I have seen this issue come up from time to time: a person deemed incompetent and in need of a professional fiduciary to manage the protected individual’s affairs is married...

The photo at left notwithstanding, Bode Miller has picked-up several Olympic skiing medals in both Salt Lake City and Vancouver over the past decade; he is currently training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Japan..

When a police officer has good reason to stop someone on the street to ask a basic question like, “what is your name?” or, “what are you doing?”, he has a right not to receive a bullet for an answer.