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• The Initial Guide in a New Series: The First Seven Days

  This entry was contributed by Timothy Heinle on April 22, 2021 at 5:54 pm and is filed under Guardianship, Uncategorized.

  The UNC School of Government’s Public Defense Education group is excited to announce a new series of practice guides, The First Seven Days, by Timothy Heinle, Civil Defender Educator. The guides offer practical tips and strategies for respondent’s attorneys in various civil proceedings to use during the first several days of representation. The ideas suggested in the guides are designed to help busy attorneys hit the ground running in ways that reduce stress for the attorney and improve representation for the client.

  The first entry in the series is The First Seven Days as a Guardian ad Litem in an Incompetency Proceeding. It includes ideas on creating files, client outreach, investigation tools, report writing, and more. Guardian ad litem attorneys in Chapter 35A proceedings can obtain the guide in three ways. Continue Reading

• Some Q&A on UAGPPJA

  This entry was contributed by Meredith Smith on February 15, 2017 at 6:31 pm and is filed under Guardianship.

  More than two months have passed since the Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act (UAGPPJA) went into effect in North Carolina. I’ve blogged about this topic a couple of times before.  If you are just tuning in to this new law, you can read more about UAGPPJA here and here. I’d like to use the post today to go through some questions I’ve received since the December 1, 2016 effective date.  The questions are divided up according to the three main areas of the law: initial filings, transfer, and registration.  The stories you are about to read are true; names have been changed to protect the innocent.*

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