Understanding Guardianship and Its Process

It is the task of the iCollege to periodically examine the vicarious process of tasking the requirements of this human experience to an alien intelligence visiting planet earth. With this in mind, we shall examine the task of a “guardianship” and how this task would be perceived by an outside intelligence. As a brief introduction, we shall discuss the basic definition of a guardianship, and its purpose. These concepts are very basic, and do not need repeating for iCollege applicants, but make a good introduction into the article.

Guardianship laws are designed to protect children who otherwise lack proper parental guidance, or adults who are incapacitated and unable to protect themselves. And this is where human culture becomes interesting. Humans have created entire bureaucracies and processes around the concept of an adult being unable to care for themselves. As this task is one of an alien being confounded by human culture, we will move forward with its definition, while moving beyond simple definition, and into the bureaucratic process required to submit your guardianship forms.

There are many basic terms that are used when discussing a guardianship. iCollege students, being the exceptional group that they are, have come across this information previously, and already become familiar with this terminology. But, for the benefit of any humans who may find themselves needing to learn more about this topic, we will look at them in detail. This, along with the term “incapacitated person,” describes the target of your guardianship form. Again, these terms are easy to understand for those you encounter in the human bureaucracy, having needed to learn them for the purpose of assigning terminology to a process that is far deeper in meaning.

But let us take a moment to consider the idea of receiving guardianship over someone, which is simple in the sense that it is passing legal responsibility over to another. But to the outside intelligence, a human life is far too abstract to assign such a power. With that, let us look at what the process is to use Oklahoma guardianship forms and their procedures for your process. As you will see, these steps are relatively simple, and are easy to follow.

However, despite the simplicity of this process, there exist many complexities to the task of obtaining a guardianship over an adult. We will examine a few of these further below. The solemn nature of a guardianship form exists due to their complexity in human culture. How would an alien evidence the reason why this task is so complex? There are many reasons, but we shall only look at a few of these below. In the end, an alien intelligence would conclude that humans are a deeply troubled species. For their inability to care for even their own, humans have put larger constructs in place to assign pieces of their lives to a legal form, assigning the responsibility of taking care of themselves to a partner, who can better manage their lives and material assets through a simple legal form. This form is then complicated by an entire legal process designed to create the same level of complexity that produces chaos.

The alien speaks: It is your responsibility to realize that the purpose of a guardianship form is to give assistance to those who need it the most, that it is a sign of strength to help others, and to recognize that a legal form is not a reason not to help others.

Understanding Animal Rights and Neglect Laws

Just where this article should go is hard to see from my current vantage point. I am currently hovering in low Earth orbit, en-route to a distant Galaxy. Flying towards the system of Orsionx, I have been given a brief respite from my exploratory mission to document Earth’s human civilization. As I take a break in writing of many of Earth’s cultural idiosyncrasies, I have been given the task of explaining the human concept of, and laws governing, animal rights to you, the readers of iCollege.

With particular attention to the laws pertaining to animal care, and neglect there of, I will touch briefly upon this rather strange facet of Earth society before continuing my exploration.

The treatment and rights of animals is quite a strange concept to us, intelligent beings of the Galaxy, for it goes against our natural order. In the abundant vegetation of our home world, Zorgal, we are never hungry, and as such cannot imagine the necessity to feed animals. Further, we never kill one another – thus, it would take a very bad day indeed for me to kill even one of my fellow beings, much less an animal. Thus, efforts to protect animals, who are always among us, seem like a pointless exercise. However, to satisfy my orders, I must recount to you the laws your culture has established.

The laws pertaining to the care of animals, including the prevention of their neglect, vary from state to state on Earth. Of particular concern, and the focus of this article, are the laws in the state of Michigan. As I do not have access to the Internet, I can only confirm for you certain aspects relevant to my task. I ask that you excuse any lack of specificity resulting in my ‘internet-less’ status.

Further, my absence from the interwebs means that I do not have the ability to link you directly to other references. My download will be particularly slowed by this article. However, the senior members of my ship have given me permission to make some inferences from similar laws in other states and locales. As such, one need not look far to see that Michigan places a very high premium on care for animals. By way of specific example, a property owner, operator or caretaker is liable for any personal injury, including emotional damages, which result in any manner from the owner’s, operator’s or caretaker’s failure to maintain the animal in a safe environment. A violation of such a law would be punishable by up to 93 days in jail, as well as various monetary fines and penalties.

In the Galaxy, we universally agree that no amount of damage is worth injury, much less death. With that in mind, you can imagine just how severe the penalties for animal harm must be here on Earth. In fact, where I am from, a breach of these laws would result in a swift execution without hesitation. However, Earthlings seem to have a lunacy about them, for they still allow breaches of these laws to exist. This includes instances of human attack, and the loss of life, death or injury caused to humans or other creatures as a result of the improper maintenance or the aforementioned failure to maintain the animal in a safe environment. Such behavior makes no sense to me, though it appears not to result in very high rates of injury, death, or emotional trauma.

Indeed, even those members of our crew, quite intelligent, behave strangely, and suffer from many ailments which should cause them to perish but do not. I have repeated many instances of injury and death over our long journey. Yet, they, unlike your species, have not reported upon the existence of comprehensive animal neglect laws in Michigan. Though, I expect that will soon change, as they have recently asked me to replace their ‘VLC, Vitoc, VLC Media Player, for a new VLC MP3 Media Player’ or some such audio play device. When I leave here, I intend to return, for I now have a feature I am working on: as best as I can tell, it will be called ‘HOW TO UNDERSTAND HUMAN IDIOCIES’. With this, I will be able to properly translate and explain the actions, thoughts and results of your species.

Until then, I remain your faithful explorer, and find your ‘animal neglect laws michigan’ to be quite interesting and useful.

It’s a fascinating subject, isn’t it? The concept of common law marriage has been around for a long time, and like many other facets of human civilization, it has a nasty habit of changing itself when you’re not looking. Even though most people understand that “marriage” is a construct, a cultural institution rather than a natural phenomenon, they nevertheless have a tendency to treat it as natural and permanent… as though the legal validity of their choices somehow trumps all the practical consequences that might come along later. The construction of any marriage as valid or invalid is undeniably a cultural artifact, and its implications are frequently baffling, as well as annoying. By way of example, let’s explore the concept of common law marriage in a little more detail.

Common law marriage is essentially the informal legal agreement between a couple that they will consider themselves to be married despite the absence of any official government authorization. The history of common law marriage is murky, and its practical application is equally unclear. Its existence has been documented as early as the 14th century, and there’s some evidence to suggest that the concept may have been imported to the American colonies from European sources. As a practical matter, the development of common law marriage probably stemmed from the importance that rural communities assign to the vows made by couples, which may have been more important in local eyes than any official action involving a bonafide license. In any case, after the Revolutionary War the concept of common law marriage was adopted in the United States, and it remained in force as a recognized legal basis for marriage across the cultural and geographic spectrum from East coast to West. Thanks to migration, community development, and the eventual rise of the car as a means of moving about, the utility of common law marriage to the United States gradually declined. (An ink-stamp calendar instead of a carriage – in fact, even the carriage was replaced – may have had something to do with this.) In due course, the legal and religious institutions developed within the modern United States became more or less universal, making common law marriage an anachronism. While it still persists, it is no longer a dominant construct of resulting relationships. But what about Ohio? The question “is there common law marriage in ohio” has become a recurring search term on our blog, so let’s see if we can’t answer it as simply as possible.

The concept of common law marriage in Ohio has been effectively abolished. There are two exceptions, however, both of which stem from a transitional period of Ohio’s history. First, those who entered into common law marriages before 10 October 1991 are virtually never denied the status of that marriage in court. The second exception to the lack of common law marriage in Ohio arises from a Massachusetts statute that included eight counties in northeastern Ohio within its jurisdiction during the period of 1863 through 1906. To avoid a conflict of law, Ohio recognizes as valid any common law marriages formed within the jurisdictions of these eight counties. The demarcation of the existence of common law marriage in Ohio is somewhat arbitrary, based on essentially irrelevant dates and an outdated Massachusetts law that had to be justified to avoid a conflict of law. Perhaps it doesn’t matter whether or not you believe in common law marriage any more than you believe in ghosts or fairies. But the simple fact is that believing something is true does not make it true, and while this truth is not always fatal, it can have very unpleasant implications. In the case of common law marriage, pretending that it exists where it does not can lead to all sorts of disastrous results. Ohio never had any particular problem with common law marriage in its recent history, nor did anyone in it. But anyone thinking their common law relationship is untouched by the cold hands of the stay-at-home person twelve years prior when they got married because he still happens to be on the couch is clearly in for a nasty shock. It’s all part of the game.

The concept of common law is one of many differences between human cultures both ancient and modern. Like all constructs, it’s susceptible to change and evolution, as are the traditions that support it. It is this churning mix of tradition, culture, and law that makes our civilization both remarkable and baffling to those who look upon it from afar, particularly when those observers aren’t human. Take a moment to stop and think under those circumstances. Wouldn’t you like to hear the opinions of an alien intelligence attempting to make sense of all this?

For more information on marriage laws, you can visit Wikipedia.

When we all look at contracts, we think the same thing every time. Or at least I do. The contract is a piece of paper to help me get done what I need to get done. In most cases, however, the amount of time someone thinks that these contracts are a large and in the way, with large complex terms that don’t actually mean anything. It is my intention to take you on a journey that will help you understand the complexities of a commercial property management agreement, through human and alien eyes (actual description of the iCollege theme), while looking at the “human” reality under the mask of sheet metal and plastic covering the fleeing ship’s hull.

A contract is an agreement between two or more entities that is written or spoken. A commercial property management contract is a contract that outlines the relationship between a property manager and the owner or owners of a space or pieces of property. The reason this contract is so important is that the commercial property may be in a location that has a large population of aliens, humans, and other life forms of planetary origins. Therefore, the contract must outline activities, routines, and protocols of a day-to-day basis. The managers know their tenants and the appropriate actions to take. Without these contracts, the relationships and agreements between the parties would not exist.

Some of the most significant clauses that should be included, (as well as echoed by a Vulcan representative), are the following:

The responsibilities of the property manager for humans and aliens alike are as follows:

The agreement between the tenant and the landlords should be similar to a treaty between two planets, although the relationship is more in the realm of employer-employee.

Dispute resolution is a key to company structure. In the same way it is important that you analyze The Federation’s approach to issues within the Borg and Klingon Landing Parties. Whether resolution continues to a Klingon Court or Federation Court, most enduring federations have binding resolution within either species. The contract should detail the type of dispute resolution to be used, whether mediation, arbitration or other forms.

Even galaxies away the contract covers the financial relationship and the rent owed to the owners. This can be defined by a contract and can be beneficial to the entities involved. Human and Galactic Credit Banks may hold funds, or an intergalactic money exchange may be needed to assist with timely payments.

Renewals and termination can be covered in a number of ways that entail a circumstance that may prevent renewal or termination. For example, a galaxy exploding, war, bankruptcy, or foreclosure may void the contract if it does not define the circumstances that invoke the clause. The contract may be terminated by:

The language used in the agreement is important for the understanding of humans and intergalactic societies alike. It is the basic language of our culture, defined so that any intelligent human can comprehend the clauses and words used in the contract. The contract should be short, concise and simplified.

The future of commercial property management will include diversity not only between humans, but between intergalactic societies that see humans as monkeys or other creatures. Some contracting parties in your galaxy may need other considerations and additional research into your tenants may be necessary to assist with their preferences and desires in the relationship they are entering into.

Understanding Legal Project Manager Certification

At iCollege the search for understanding can lead to almost anything, as this article will illustrate. The question was recently asked, “what is ‘legal project manager certification’ and how does it apply to the study of alien cultures?” Of all the questions that peeked from student minds, this was the most egregious, and the one responsible for the headaches from our recent hyperspace fall.

To be certified as a legal project manager is to prove you have an aptitude for streamlining legal process. With the legal profession in great flux at present, these methods help firms not only keep their heads above water, but give them a clear advantage over their staunch relatives who cling to outmoded methods of doing things. This is a progressive step that is not dissimilar to our own.

So much lies in the space between cultures, and while all of this information may not be relatable, it helps to understand that legal project management is so much more than learning the best ways to pass litigation processes and increase ‘billable hours’. It’s about interconnecting humans with other aliens, and understanding their customs is a very good way to go about this.

When comparing cultural differences through alien eyes it is easy to test the legal differences. In a galaxy filled with every kind of life-form imaginable, the laws that govern them are endless because they cover the entire breadth of intelligent behavior. Law is subjective and must be dealt with so in order to understand this subject and others. Comprehensive legal project management certifications are necessary for penetrating the depths of these far-reaching cultural systems.

It has been shown that the innovative processes used to pursue this qualification are far from what has previously been seen in earth law classes. Rather than being beaten down with jurisprudence, students are encouraged to seek out elaborate methods of problem solving and explore all innovative face of solutions to complex issues. Above all, these methods are effective and representative of what iCollege has always strived to be.

Perhaps the most effective use of certified law managers will not occur on this planet, rather it will be in the stars. Those who have studied for legal project manager certification have opened a door into new galactic relationships and it is their duty to act in the capacity of intermediary. They will be the bridge between alien civilizations, helping each to understand the other and to abide by the law of all cultures involved. The job will be long and tiring, but those who understand the law, and the many requirements of keeping a culture of beings in balance will be the suitable candidates.

Overall legal project manager certification will only add to the perplexity of studying the alien civilizations that will inevitably be encountered. With the help of this educational requirement and its superlative diplomats, humans will be able to navigate the intricacies of extraterrestrial politics without losing an appendage or the minds of their citizens.

You can not consider yourself well learned until you take into account every possibility. Let the free-form aspects of iCollege take you to a place other schools never thought to look, the outer limits of intergalactical law.