Greetings All:

Kelly and I are in the final stages of preparation for our great trek
across the country.

We are dotting the I's and crossing the T's so to speak. We will be
leaving for Anacortes to pick up our boat in about 3 weeks, and will be
making our way east for the next 2-3 months. This trek will take us up
the Columbia/Snake Rivers, a truck to Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin, then
either a cruise across the Great Lakes/Erie Canal/Hudson River, or down
the Mississippi, Gulf, and up the east coast; all in all a long trip.

As part of the preparation, we are drawing up our living wills and
health care proxies. In doing so, we have run into what seems to be a
real problem. Health care proxies and living wills are "state-specific".
In other words, what is legal and procedural here in NY, is not in other
parts of the country.

How do people who live and cruise most of the time deal with this
important issue?? I would hate to be faced with a disaster somewhere,
and find that Kelly's or my health care wishes will not be honored
because the paperwork was drawn up in another state, or because our
wishes are not "recognised" in a particular state.

Regards
Bob & Kelly

--

m/v Tamara B. Cape Elizebeth Me. http://www.tamara-b.org
kelly@tamara-b.org bob@tamara-b.org

I am not an expert but I think that the laws in your state of RESIDENCE
would apply. Simply traveling though a state would not subject you to
their laws.

Gregory Han
Han and Associates Inc.
685 Curtiswood Dr
Key Biscayne FL 33149
305 361 2133
Fax  305 437 8108
ghan@GregHan.com

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[mailto:trawler-world-list-admin@lists.samurai.com] On Behalf Of Bob
Richards
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 10:40 AM
To: Trawler World List
Subject: TWL: A Life and Death Question

Greetings All:

Kelly and I are in the final stages of preparation for our great trek
across the country.

We are dotting the I's and crossing the T's so to speak. We will be
leaving for Anacortes to pick up our boat in about 3 weeks, and will be
making our way east for the next 2-3 months. This trek will take us up
the Columbia/Snake Rivers, a truck to Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin, then
either a cruise across the Great Lakes/Erie Canal/Hudson River, or down
the Mississippi, Gulf, and up the east coast; all in all a long trip.

As part of the preparation, we are drawing up our living wills and
health care proxies. In doing so, we have run into what seems to be a
real problem. Health care proxies and living wills are "state-specific".
In other words, what is legal and procedural here in NY, is not in other
parts of the country.

How do people who live and cruise most of the time deal with this
important issue?? I would hate to be faced with a disaster somewhere,
and find that Kelly's or my health care wishes will not be honored
because the paperwork was drawn up in another state, or because our
wishes are not "recognised" in a particular state.

Regards
Bob & Kelly

--

m/v Tamara B. Cape Elizebeth Me. http://www.tamara-b.org
kelly@tamara-b.org bob@tamara-b.org

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What if you don't have a state of residence? We livaboard full time and
cruise all over the place.
Russ

Thanks, Bob
These are very helpful. I remember when you first posted them, but didn't
know how to find them. I have now printed them out.
Russ

I don't want to post my little primers about residency again, for fear of
boring all the list old timers. Anyone who wants to take a look can go to
these urls.

http://lists.samurai.com/pipermail/trawler-world-list/1998-September/004784.
html
(establishing residency)

http://lists.samurai.com/pipermail/trawler-world-list/1999-February/009367.h
tml
(taxes and residence)

http://lists.samurai.com/pipermail/trawler-world-list/2001-March/030513.html
(state residency - tax avoidance schemes - short and not a primer)

http://lists.samurai.com/pipermail/trawler-world-list/2001-January/027155.ht
ml
(corporate registration of vessels - short and not a primer)