Decision making legal services
About legal support for decision making issues
ADA Law’s decision making legal service provides legal advice, representation, information and advocacy support to adults whose decision-making capacity is impaired or in question.
If you are an adult in Queensland, you are presumed to have the capacity to make your own decisions. However, sometimes your decision making capacity may be affected by age-related impairment, intellectual or developmental impairment, mental illness, or acquired brain injury.
If this has happened to you, then somebody else may be making your decisions for you. If you had an Enduring Power of Attorney, this person may be your decision-maker. If you did not have an Enduring Power of Attorney, someone may have applied to the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) to be your decision-maker, and QCAT may have appointed a Guardian and/or an Administrator.
How we can help
- Mediating and resolving issues with your Attorney/s about your Enduring Power of Attorney
- Information and advice on making and using an Enduring Power of Attorney
- Information and advice on making and using Advance Health Directives
- Legal representation at QCAT when:
- You are subject to applications for Guardianship or Administration
- Disagree with decisions of your decision makers and what to change decision makers
- Wish to review existing Guardianship or Administration orders and become your own decision maker
- Wish to review existing Enduring Powers of Attorney
Who is eligible
Adults who have a current QCAT hearing scheduled, or about to be scheduled. This includes adults with:
- impaired decision-making capacity, who are unhappy with their appointed decision maker and wish to make changes
- questioned decision-making capacity, who are at high risk of having appointed decision-makers put in place unnecessarily.
Where we work
South East Queensland in the areas from Gold Coast to Gympie, out to Somerset and the Scenic Rim. We may also be able to offer support in other areas of Queensland on a limited case by case basis.
Check the Service Locator to find out what support is available in your area.
How we work
Independent
Confidential
Privacy
Client Directed
Free
Short Term & Issue Specific
What we cannot help with
ADA Law is a specialist disability and older person’s Queensland Community Legal Service. We are not a generalist legal service and cannot advise on:
- Personal injury
- Commercial matters
- Immigration
- Conveyancing
- Criminal charges
- Employment
- Consumer issues
- Coronial matters
- Insurance matters
- Family law
Resources
Understanding Decision Making in Queensland
Making an Enduring
Power of Attorney
Using an Enduring
Power of Attorney
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