Which State Law Governs Your Will?
When Nevada resident David King hired a Minnesota lawyer to write his will, and then moved to Oregon — did he imagine how much confusion would arise from the application of different state law?
Court Strikes Down Ashcroft Directive on Assisted Suicide
MAY 31, 2004 VOLUME 11, NUMBER 48 In 1994 and again in 1997, Oregon voters approved the first law permitting physician-assisted suicide in the U.S. In each of the six years since the law was implemented, about 30 terminally ill Oregon residents have used the “Death With Dignity” Act to end their lives with the […]