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Legal Guide for Seniors Now Available in Chinese

Spectrum staff

The State Bar’s “Seniors and the Law” legal guide is now available in Chinese as well as English and Spanish, State Bar Executive Director Judy Johnson announced last week.

The English and Spanish versions were published in May and were distributed in Sacramento at two forums co-sponsored by the State Bar and Spectrum newspaper.

“Our goal with ‘Seniors and the Law’ was to inform California seniors about issues and laws that affect them,” Johnson said. “Now we hope ‘Seniors’ can be a powerful educational tool in California’s Chinese-speaking homes and communities.”

The guide includes sections on finances, Social Security, insurance, housing, employment, health care, elder abuse, consumer fraud, grandparents’ rights, estate planning and other issues which face many older Californians.

To order a copy of “Seniors and the Law,” e-mail seniors@calbar.ca.gov or write to the State Bar of California; Attn: Seniors and the Law; 180 Howard St.; San Francisco, CA 94105-1639. Specify whether you want the English, Spanish or Chinese version, and provide a name, address, the number of copies desired and a daytime phone number.

Free copies of the English version are available at Spectrum’s office, located at 530 Bercut Drive, Suite E, in Sacramento. The guide also will be available for free Jan. 19 at Spectrum’s table at the KCTC Senior Spectacular at the Radisson, at 500 Leisure Lane in Sacramento.