Difference between revisions of "I Want to Help a Friend or Relative Manage Their Affairs"
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**health and personal care decisions, | **health and personal care decisions, | ||
**hiring legal counsel, | **hiring legal counsel, | ||
**overriding the <span class="noglossary">donor</span>'s refusal of help or medical treatment, | **overriding the <span class="noglossary">donor</span>'s refusal of help or medical treatment, and | ||
**making arrangements for the <span class="noglossary">donor</span>'s minor children. | **making arrangements for the <span class="noglossary">donor</span>'s minor children. | ||
*'''Committeeship:''' Where a person is not mentally capable of managing his or her affairs, a family member or the Public Trustee can apply to the Supreme Court of BC for an order declaring the person to be mentally incapable and appointing a ''committee'' with the authority to handle financial affairs for them. Once a committee is appointed, the person has no further say about the affairs over which the committee has authority. | *'''Committeeship:''' Where a person is not mentally capable of managing his or her affairs, a family member or the Public Trustee can apply to the Supreme Court of BC for an order declaring the person to be mentally incapable and appointing a ''committee'' with the authority to handle financial affairs for them. Once a committee is appointed, the person has no further say about the affairs over which the committee has authority. | ||