Students will educate people with disabilities and their supporters about legal alternatives to guardianship. Students will explain available legal supports, including powers of attorney and supported decision-making agreements. Students will help prepare appropriate legal support documents for individuals attending the clinic.
Organization
Texas Law Preservation of Rights Project
The Alternatives to Guardianship Clinic is part of the Mithoff Program’s Preservation of Rights Project (PORP). PORP hosts clinics related to estate planning, elder and disability planning, and guardianship law. The Alternatives to Guardianship Clinic is intended to provide community access to information on legal alternatives that provide supports to people with disabilities and that may avoid a potential need for guardianship and the loss of rights that accompanies guardianship.
Project Details
- Project Date
Saturday, September 14
- Project Time
- 12pm-4pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 6 hours, including training and review of self-study materials
- Training
- Wednesday, September 11, 5pm-6pm, Goodwin (CCJ 1.312)
- Skills used
- Community engagement; document preparation
- Project location
- Ruiz Branch, Austin Public Library, 1600 Grove Blvd.
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 16
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- Required skills
- None; foreign language skills, such as Spanish language skills or ASL skills are useful but not required
- To Apply
- Register at https://gaurdianship9-14-24.eventbrite.com