Attorney’s Office
This website does not advocate a position on whether or not an attorney should be used for any circumstance. Comments are for thought and discussion only. Readers are welcome to post their views.
Do I really need an attorney?
Baby Boomers may be reaching the age when, even if they have never opted for the services of an attorney before, they are faced with legal issues which may cause them to consider employing one. Some persons choose to use an attorney for any legal work they require. Others use templates for processes such as writing a will, estate planning, or developing a contract. Such templates are widely available on the Internet, on software, and through other sources.
How do I go about selecting an attorney?
Possible considerations for selecting an attorney might include cost versus risk, or whether the attorney specializes in a particular area, such as real estate, estate planning, personal injury, divorce, or environmental law.
Tell us what you think in the comment box below:
What might happen if I don’t have a will?
What is a “living will” and “power of attorney” and do I need these?
After-Boomer Extra:
How should estate documents change over your lifetime?
September 2nd, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Hey, maybe I’m naive, but I do think healthcare is a right. Nobody should die because they can’t afford medicine or a medical procedure. In my fantasy world it would all be free.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Hey I just realized if the Big O gets his way, we won’t need attorneys. Everyone will have the same amount of money, the same living quarters, the same food, the same clothes (sounds like summer camp, doesn’t it?), the same everything.
We won’t need attorneys…there won’t be anything to fight over!!!
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:53 pm
President BO (yea, he really does STINK), is desparately trying to pawn off OsamaCare as a healthcare “crisis”. Yea, its such a crisis, everybody comes to the US, when they really need great care. Healthcare is no more of a right, as a home , or a job, or food. I guess next we’ll be supplying a home, food, etc. to every American. But a job… who needs to work when its all FREE!
July 13th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Cavalier…bitter, perhaps?
Oh yeah…Obama answered the guy who asked about his eighty some year old mother who needs a pace-maker. “Maybe it would be better if she were just on pain medication.” Hugh? Who decides that? Some office jockey in Washington, no doubt, with a high school education.
What pisses me off is that if you choose to opt out of the federal system, you get fined a thousand bucks. Craziness.
July 13th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
I don’t know why women complain so much about divorce and their ex-husbands. They get half of everything plus maintenance, and they usually haven’t contributed half to the family pot.
July 11th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Estate Planning? What about Divorce Planning??? Maybe if we all planned for that, we’d have an estate to leave to someone!
But seriously, I’m not so sure about estate planning, but living wills may soon become a thing of the past. If government health care has a negative impact on private insurers, and it likely will, most of us will have the government deciding whether or not to turn off the oxygen. If you’re old and taking up a hospital bed that someone younger needs, your family likely will not be asked whether the plug should be pulled. Are people aware of this?