Special Needs Financial Planning: A Comparative Perspective

Description

Countries around the world are facing pressing needs to enhance financial planning mechanisms for individuals with cognitive impairment. The book provides the first comparative study of the three most common of such mechanisms in Asia and the West, namely guardianship, enduring/lasting powers of attorney, and special needs trusts. It involves not only scholarly overviews of the mechanisms in the jurisdictions studied, but also thorough, structured and critical reviews of their operational experiences. This book will have broad appeal to scholars, students, law and policy makers and practitioners in the fields of mental disability, healthcare and elder law. It is widely recognised in the field that books like this one are needed. This book will also be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students in mental health, disability law and elder law.

Lusina Ho is the Harold Hsiao-Wo Lee Professor in Trust and Equity at the Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong. She publishes widely in the fields of Equity and Trusts, and is the author of the first comprehensive English-language monograph on the Chinese trust. Rebecca Lee is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong, where she teaches and researches in Equity and Trusts. Lusina Ho and Rebecca Lee co-edited Trust Law in Asian Civil Law Jurisdictions: A Comparative Analysis (2013), which critically examines the reception of trust in civil law jurisdictions in East Asia.