by Michael D. Rudy | Feb 14, 2018 | Pleading Practices |
Founding partner, Michael D. Rudy, discusses pleading practices in Hawaii’s Probate Courts. One of the most difficult aspects of litigating trust and estate cases in Hawaii, particularly in their early stages, is the lack of guidance that the Hawaii Probate...
by Michael D. Rudy | Dec 15, 2017 | Financial Elder Abuse |
Founding partner, Michael D. Rudy, discusses financial elder abuse and the staggering number of unreported cases of abuse. As our population ages, financial abuse perpetrated against our elderly citizens has reached epidemic proportions. There are thousands of cases...
by Michael D. Rudy | Oct 3, 2017 | Using Powers Of Attorney |
Founding partner, Michael D. Rudy, discusses the use and misuse of powers of attorney when dealing with trust assets. With the widespread use of revocable trusts in estate planning, financial institutions occasionally find that they are presented with powers of...
by Michael D. Rudy | Sep 12, 2017 | The "Lucid Interval" |
Founding partner, Michael D. Rudy, discusses the “lucid interval” and explains that the occurrence of a lucid interval in moderate or advanced dementia cases is wholly unsupported by medical science. Recently, my firm was involved with a case in which a...
by Michael D. Rudy | Aug 24, 2017 | Physician Opinion Letters |
Founding partner, Michael D. Rudy, discusses the use of physician opinion letters in estate planning and trust and estates litigation and the universally misunderstood term “legal capacity.” By far the most misunderstood area in trust and estates...
