Elderly widow living in a nursing home –

There is a line between helping folks in need and practicing law when illegally prohibited from doing so. Where is that line when estate planning is involved? The matters below should help you assess this ethical question.

HW2

There are different reasons people have wills drafted. Here, we look at different scenarios and see how a will would benefit each in these specific situations.
Examine the need for a will in the following scenarios, and then indicate who from this group is most in need of a will.

Elderly widow living in a nursing home –

Wealthy, married couple with grown children
Widower in his 30s with two small children
Couple in their second marriage, each having grown children from his/her prior marriage, and the two having a minor child together
24 year old unmarried, childless college student
Disabled adult
Justify your ideas and responses by using appropriate examples and references from Westlaw (including primary sources such as cases, statutes, rules, regulations, etc.), government Web sites, peer-reviewed legal periodicals (not lawyer blogs), which can be supplemented by law dictionaries or the textbook. This means you need to use more than just your text and legal dictionaries.

There is a line between helping folks in need and practicing law when illegally prohibited from doing so. Where is that line when estate planning is involved? The matters below should help you assess this ethical question.