Advance Directives. Memorandum to Elder Abuse Task Force (May 16, 2020)

Living Wills Should be Made Legally Binding Op-ed, Ann Arbor News (November 29, 1982)

"Commemorating 1993 as Advance Directive Year in Michigan." House of Representatives Resolution No. 1165

Michigan Medical Self-Determination Act (living will) HB 4391 (1991)

Family consent for medical treatment HB 5553 (1992) See, also, SB 671 (1997); HB 6080 (1998); LSB Request 04199 (Senator Beverly Hammerstrom (2005).

Legislative analysis of HB 5553 (1992)

"Medical Treatment Decisions: Back to the Future?" Michigan Bar Journal Volume 72, Number 1 (January 1993)

Memorandum on family consent to Senator Ruth Johnson (September 21, 2021)

Draft legislation for family consent for medical treatment (Senate bill third draft, March 7, 2022)

Grant Proposal: Educating students in health care professions concerning surrogate decision-making

"Issues in Adult Guardianship." (January 21, 1992)

"Additional Issues in Adult Guardianship." Memorandum to Judge John Kirkendall (December 6, 1996)

"Guardianship Issues." Memorandum from Kathy Harris and Brad Geller to Jennifer Roccos, Counsel, Senate Republican Caucus (April 11, 2000)

Memorandum from Senator Beverly Hammerstom, Chair, Senate Committee on Family, Mental Health and Human Services, outlining suggested statutory and administrative changes pursuant to the Michigan Supreme Court Task Force (July 10, 2000)

Elderlaw and Advocacy Section of State Bar Legislative Agenda (2003)

Michigan Guardianship Reform Implementation Project (October 6, 2011)

Project Dignity: Establishing A Volunteer Guardian Program

Memorandum to Judge John Kirkendall, Sex, Procreation and Surrogate Decision-Making (November 29, 1994)

Memorandum to United States Senate Special Committee on Aging (March 22, 2023)

The Long and Winding Road: Guardianship Reform in Michigan. The Elder Law Journal. volume 1, number 2 (1993)

Outline of Project Joshua to implement Michigan Guardianship Reform Act of 1988 (1988)

Elder Law and Advocacy Section of State Bar resolution for Supreme Court to establish task force on guardianship (September 19, 1966)

Report of the Michigan Supreme Court Task Force on Guardianships Draft with Committee Reports (November 15, 1997)

Memorandum on Court Watch Project, to Elder Abuse Task Force (May 24, 2020)

Mary Bomgren, Kathleen N. Harris, Barbara W. LeRoy and Nathanial Israel, A Court Watch Project: A Monitoring of Guardianship Proceedings in Four Michigan Counties (September 2003)

Survey of Practices of Professional Guardians (April 1, 2015)

Kicking the Can Down the Road: The Michigan Supreme Court, the Michigan Attorney General and Guardianship Reform. Memorandum to Michigan Supreme Court (May 19, 2021)

Guardianship Un-Reform. Memorandum to Michigan Supreme Court (November 1, 2021)

Michigan Attorney General / Michigan Supreme Court guardianship reform initiatives (March, 2019)

Memorandum on screening guardianship petitions, to Elder Abuse Task Force (October 7, 2020)

Memorandum on screening guardianship petitions to Senator Beverly Hammerstrom (July 16, 2000)

Data: Screening guardianship petitions Washtenaw County Probate Court

Comments on proposed national standards for guardianship entities, to Congressional committee (October 11, 1988)

Comments on Proposed Wayne County Probate Court Ethics and Standards for Professional Guardians, to Judge John Kirkendall (October 30, 1995)

Memorandum on certifying professional guardians, to Michigan Supreme Court, (February 5, 2020)

Memorandum on certifying professional guardians, to Michigan Attorney General (February 21, 2020)

Memorandum on National Guardianship Association, to Elder Abuse Task Force (May 16, 2020)

Memorandum on financial oversight of guardians, to Elder Abuse Task Force (October 7, 2021)

Memorandum to Supreme Court on Improving Guardianship Court Form (2020)

Revised PC 625 Petition for Appointment of an Alleged Incapacitated Individual (2019)

Revised PC 627 Report of Guardian ad Litem

Revised PC 631 Order Regarding Appointment of a Guardian (2020)

Revised PC 634 Annual Report of Guardian on Condition of Legally Incapacitated Individual (2019)

Revised PC 583 Account of Fiduciary (2019)

Revised PC 668 Notice to Individual on Petition for Conservatorship

Revised PC 674 Inventory for Conservatorship

Revised PC 636 Report Upon Review of Guardianship of Legally Incapacitated Individual

New form to notify court of change of residence of individual

Revised PC 668 Notice to Respondent in Conservatorship proceedings

New form for delegation of powers by guardian

New form for physician to document an emergency

Memorandum from State Court Administrator Milton Mack to probate judges regarding a change in a reporting form, SCAO Form 65, "Deficiencies in Guardianship / Conservatorship Administration," to no longer include identification of specific, delinquent guardians or conservators (July 13, 2016)

Comparison of Data from Michigan and Ohio; Comparison of Data from Wayne County and the Balance of Michigan

Data from Boucher v. State of Michigan

Inaccuracy of Data Reported by State Court Administrative Office

Uses of Accurate Data - to Elder Abuse Task Force (May 17, 2020)

Proposal for Collection of Data (2001)

Proposal for Collection of Data (2004)

HB 6090 (1998) Require SCAO to collect accurate and comprehensive data on guardianship

Summary of Conservator Reform Act HB 5345 (1991)

Conservatorship Reform Act HB 5345 (1991)

Guardianship due process fund HB 5346 of 1991, P.A.

Filing fees to be used for certain due process costs in adult guardianship proceedings. Revised Judicature Act (except) MCL 600.880b, MCL 600;880d

Retained civil rights of individual under guardianship HB 5754 (1992)

Retained civil rights of individual under guardianship (Draft 2008)

Memorandum on Civil Rights of Individuals Under Guardianship, to Elder Abuse Task Force. (May 16, 2020)

Memorandum - Proposed Michigan Anti-Corruption and Kickback Act (1999)

Regulation of Professional Guardians SB 863 (as introduced) (October 28, 1999) Enacted as PA 463 of 2000, with anti-corruption provisions stripped from the bill

Letter: Public administrators have no statutory authority to serve as professional guardians, to Attorney General Jennifer Granholm (July 11, 2001

Guardian / conservator caseloads of selected public administrators

Repeal of State Public Administrators Act of 1947 (Draft 2021)

Draft bill: Resignation by terminated public administrators from all guardianship and conservatorship cases

Correspondence with Michigan Law Revision Commission objecting to, inter alia, the emergency guardianship provision of the proposed Uniform Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Act (July 20, 1997). [Michigan subsequently voted against adoption of the UGPP by the Conference of Commissioners on United States Laws]

Memorandum on emergency guardianships to Elder Abuse Task Force (September 28, 2021)

Emergency guardianships (Draft legislation to implement the Elder Abuse Task Force Initiative) (2020)

Requirement for guardian to file inventory and accounts HB 5919 of 2000 as it passed the House. The bill was enacted but only after the Senate stripped out these requirements.

Michigan Supreme Court announcement of creation of position of guardian ombudsman

Establish guardianship ombudsman HB 4916 (2001)

Memorandum on proposed amendments to HB 4916, to Andrew Richner, Chair, Michigan House Judiciary Committee

Memorandum comparing the March 2019 legislative Initiatives with allegations in Boucher v. State of Michigan

Michigan Guardianship Reform Act of 2021 (Draft legislation to implement the Elder Abuse Task Force Initiatives (2021)

Bill to amend 1963 PA 236 of 1963, entitled, “The Revised Judicature Act" by amending section 1021 (MCL 600.1021) as amended by 2000 PA 56 and 2002 PA 682

First come- first served in nursing home admissions HB 4459 (1987)

Establish $25,000 income disregard for Medicaid elgibility HB 5133 (1987)

Require all nursing home beds to be certified; all Medicare beds to be dually certified HB 5277 (1991)

Regulation of nursing home security deposits HB 5975 (1992)

Right of nursing home resident to have visitors SB 713 draft substitute (2017)

Ban Medicaid discrimination by nursing homes HB 5085 (1991)

Michicare: A Single-Payer Health Care Plan for Michigan's Future HB 5212 (1991)

Community Panel Discussion: Is Health Care a Constitutional Right? University of Michigan Law School (April 26, 1992)

Ban on employment discrimination on the basis of receipt of mental health services HB 4312 (1989)

Ban on Medicare balance billing HB 4554 (1991)

Ban on age discrimination in higher education, including admissions HB 4856 (1989)

Statutory Durable Power of Attorney HB 5492

Testimony before US Department of Health, Education and Welfare on proposed amendments to implement the Older Americans Act (September 1979)

Tile III-B Project Report, Legal Services of Southeastern Michigan (September 15, 1980)