www.som360.org/es
All answers
- What are support measures and what are they for?
- What are the main changes included in the 2021 Law regarding support measures?
- Can I start processing support measures for a 17-year-old, thinking that when they come of age they will need help in some areas?
- Where can I get the document I need to take to court to propose support measures? What else do I need to bring?
- Who can request a support measure?
- If the person accepts the notarial route and it is not a representative assistance, is it necessary to make general powers of attorney?
- What does the role of the assistant entail and what are their functions?
- Who decides whether a person needs a support measure and what criteria are used to determine it?
- Can we request a review of support measures when we see that the person has improved and perhaps no longer needs them?
- How can I request assistance?
- Who provides the support measures?
- What assistance do foundations offer and how do they work?
- When is it advisable to request assistance?
- What happens if the person does not want support measures, but the family sees that they need them?
- What should I do to report that a person who has been granted support measures is not receiving adequate care?
- Are there any concrete measures to help someone manage their finances?
What happens if the person does not want support measures, but the family sees that they need them?
Judith Franco Arrese
Lawyer. Legal advisor with coordination functions
Fundació Malalts Mentals de Catalunya
Despite the reform introduced by Law 8/21, our procedural law maintains the adversarial oral procedure for establishing support measures, which must be used in this case so that a judge can decide whether these support measures should indeed be established. Those initiating the procedure must be legally entitled to do so.
You are watching
Judith Franco Arrese
Lawyer. Legal advisor with coordination functions
Fundació Malalts Mentals de Catalunya