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2023 Ethical issues when your client has diminished capacity or passes away


Total Credits: 1.0 MCLE, 1.0 Ethics, 1.0 Kansas Credit, 1.0 Kansas Ethics

Practice Area:
Ethics
Format:
Audio and Video

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Description

This program was originally presented at our 2023 MOSOLO Small Firm Conference, June 8-10, 2023

Discussing your ethical obligations when dealing with diminished capacity, disabled, and deceased clients, in this session, Timothy McCurdy will cover:

  • The duty to treat diminished capacity clients as normally as possible.
  • What to do when a client becomes incapacitated. 
  • Your obligations to maintain the attorney-client privilege when a client dies.

This program covers the technical and practical ethics issues facing practitioners in most estate planning, probate, and trust and estate administration engagement. Related cases and professional rules of conduct will be highlighted and analyzed.

Speaker: Timothy F. McCurdy, The McCurdy Law Firm, LLC, Chesterfield

Opinions and positions stated by presenters of MoBarCLE programs are those of the presenters and not necessarily those of The Missouri Bar. This program is intended as information for lawyers in Missouri, in conjunction with other research they deem necessary, in the exercise of their independent judgment.

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The McCurdy Law Firm, LLC


Tim McCurdy is Of Counsel at the firm. Tim grew up on a farm in Southwest Iowa. After obtaining his law degree from the University of Notre Dame, Tim moved to St. Louis to “watch a few Cardinals games” before returning to Iowa. Tim met his now wife and his plans quickly changed – Tim has called St. Louis home for more than twenty years.

Throughout Tim’s legal career, he has helped clients protect their rights in lawsuits throughout the country. After watching a loved one suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, Tim developed a passion for elder law. Tim’s practice now combines his more than twenty years of litigation experience with an in-depth knowledge of estate planning and probate.

Tim devotes his practice to helping families navigate disputes involving estate plans and probate administration. Tim’s trusts and estates litigation practice includes trust and will contests, the removal of fiduciaries, demands for accountings, and contested guardianships. Tim is also frequently appointed by probate judges to represent individuals facing guardianship petitions, and as a court-appointed fiduciary.

Tim also helps families protect their life savings while ensuring access to the health care they need through Medicaid and special needs planning. Tim’s elder law practice also includes helping families develop estate plans to avoid probate and to protect against future challenges to their estate plan.

Tim lives in Chesterfield with his wife, two sons, and two dogs. Outside of the office you can likely find Tim in the stands at a hockey rink or a theater cheering on his sons.


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