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  2. Conservatorship of Wendland - Wikipedia

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    Decided August 09, 2001; Full case name: Conservatorship of the Person of Robert Wendland: Citation(s) 26 Cal. 4th 519, 28 P.3d 151 (2001): Holding; A conservator may not withhold artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH) from a conservatee who is not terminally ill, comatose, or in a persistent vegetative state, and who has not left formal instructions for health care or appointed an agent for ...

  3. Exceptio non adimpleti contractus - Wikipedia

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    The exceptio non adimpleti contractus is a defence that can be raised in the case of a reciprocal contract.In essence, it is a remedy that allows a party to withhold his own performance, accompanied by a right to ward off a claim for such performance until the other party has duly performed his or her obligations under the contract.

  4. Advance healthcare directive - Wikipedia

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    An advance healthcare directive, also known as living will, personal directive, advance directive, medical directive or advance decision, is a legal document in which a person specifies what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longer able to make decisions for themselves because of illness or incapacity.

  5. Texas Advance Directives Act - Wikipedia

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    If after 10 days, no such provider can be found, the hospital and physician may unilaterally withhold or withdraw the therapy that has been determined to be futile. The party who disagrees may appeal to the relevant state court and ask the judge to grant an extension of time before treatment is withdrawn.

  6. Euthanasia in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Euthanasia efforts were revived during the 1960s and 1970s, under the right-to-die rubric, physician assisted death in liberal bioethics, and through advance directives and do not resuscitate orders. Several major court cases advanced the legal rights of patients, or their guardians, to withdraw medical support with the expected outcome of death.

  7. Surrogate decision-maker - Wikipedia

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    Youth withdraw medical treatment from the elderly. Usually the next of kin to the elderly are younger, and know what the best interests of the elderly are and have discussed. Although at times it is difficult to explain the wishes of the patient to the physician or care team when the proxy disagrees with the patient they are representing.

  8. No, Fox News didn’t say Newsom would withhold California’s ...

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    The IRS collected about $569 million in taxes from California during the 2023 fiscal year, including about $424 million in individual income taxes. However, states can't somehow withhold income ...

  9. Baby Doe Law - Wikipedia

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    The Baby Doe Law mandates that states receiving federal money for child abuse programs develop procedures to report medical neglect, which the law defines as the withholding of treatment unless a baby is irreversibly comatose or the treatment for the newborn's survival is "virtually futile." Assessments of a child's quality of life are not ...