{"id":7995,"date":"2019-06-07T06:54:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T13:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/?p=7995"},"modified":"2019-06-07T06:54:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T13:54:52","slug":"guardianships-and-your-power-of-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/guardianships-and-your-power-of-attorney\/","title":{"rendered":"GUARDIANSHIPS AND YOUR POWER OF ATTORNEY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/lane-v-erickson.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lane V. Erickson<\/a>, Idaho Estate Planning Attorney<\/p>\n<p>I am a fan of both estate-planning and Star Trek. I grew up with Star Trek as a kid and watched every episode I could. Additionally, cover for the last 20 years I have worked as an estate planning attorney in Idaho helping individuals customize and create their own estate plans to meet their needs and help them avoid problems in the future. It&#8217;s for this reason that I was fascinated by the recent story of actress Nichelle Nichols who played the character of Lt. Nyota Uhura on the original \u201cStar Trek\u201d television series in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>The 85-year-old actress was recently diagnosed with \u201cmoderate progressive dementia\u201d, according to her doctor. Specifically, Nichols\u2019 doctor described her condition as \u201cmajor impairment of her short-term memory and moderate impairment of understanding abstract concepts, sense of time, place and immediate recall.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/guardianships-and-your-power-of-attorney\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading GUARDIANSHIPS AND YOUR POWER OF ATTORNEY\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lane V. Erickson, Idaho Estate Planning Attorney I am a fan of both estate-planning and Star Trek. I grew up with Star Trek as a kid and watched every episode I could. Additionally, cover for the last 20 years I have worked as an estate planning attorney in Idaho helping individuals customize and create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estate-planning"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GUARDIANSHIPS AND YOUR POWER OF ATTORNEY &#8212; Idaho Law Blog &#8212; June 7, 2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Lane V. Erickson, Idaho Estate Planning Attorney I am a fan of both estate-planning and Star Trek. 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