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Posts Tagged: test for capacity
1 ResultsAssessing Testamentary Capacity
by: Justin de Vries, February 27, 2007
An article was published in the American Journal of Psychiatry in May 2007 and can be found at www.ajp.psychiatryonline.org. Among other things, the article considered the common cognitive screening tests used by the medical profession to assess testamentary capacity. By way of introduction, the article states: Clinicians and legal experts must understand that cognitive tests…read more