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• I have durable power of attorney on both of my parents. They are both in their 80's. Their doctor said, they are not capable of living alone at this stage. The family agrees with him, and wants to move the parents into the home of the older daughter who is a nurse. The problem is that the parents refuse to go. We do not have the money to go through the courts with a lawyer to get guardianship. She has Alzheimer's, and he has become incompetent, and seeing things that are not there. We called the protective service in Bakersfield, California who said they still have their legal rights. What can we do to help this people, before they hurt themselves? E-mail dgoins - dgoins@inreach.com

• Subject: All retired military Officers and Enlistedmen 65 years old or older. Please add this to the legal section: You can check it out at www.classact-lawsuit.com or I suggest you contact "lawsuit@emeraldcoast.com" to obtain information on a current lawsuit filed against the government because the government is not providing the promised FREE MEDICAL Care made to military retirees at least until 1993. You may want to join this class-action law suit with the more than 1,000 of us already in the group! AT AGE 65 WE WERE FORCED TO JOIN MEDICARE AT OUR EXPENSE. E-mail Billy Young Sr. --bjymaj@webtv.net

• Qualification Requirements for Mediators-- In Montana the State Working Group on Mediator Qualifications, also known as the Montana Mediation Work Group, is attempting to establish the requirement that, in addition to taking certain specified instructions in mediation and having a specified amount of experience, a mediator possess a 4 year college degree. Such degree can be in physical education, home economics, or anything else.

  I believe this requirement will improperly restrict the public's, including senior citizens' and their families', access to mediation services. It will also make it impossible for senior citizens that might want to provide mediation services to others, even though they are otherwise qualified, from helping the public as a mediator.

  Anyone that is interested in keeping access to mediation services open to the public by fighting the requirement that all mediators have a college degree, expecially in Montana, please contact me. E-mail Jerry O'Neil -oneil@cyberport.net

• I would like to obtain information about Florida's probate law so I can make plans to minimize the state's financial interest in my estate and simplify settlement of my estate by my executors. Appreciate any information you may offer. Contact bobbo e-mail excorpus@worldnet.att.net

• A company providing Long Term Care Insurance, Senior Care, has provided information indicating that it will be a FELONY CRIMINAL OFFENSE to knowingly and willfully transfering assets to become elibible for Medicaid, if the transfer triggers a penalty period, for example if the transfer occured during the look-back period of 36 months (60 months for trusts). The offense is punishable by a fine of not more than $25,000, imprisonment for no more than five (5) years, or both. It is a misdemeanor if "any other person" does this for you. See Kennedy/Kassebaum Bill