Yesterday, a grand jury indictment in Kansas City was unsealed. It alleges that Susan Elizabeth “Liz” Van Note, a Kansas estate planning attorney, forged her father’s name to an advance directive.
In 2010, William Van Note was shot and stabbed in his home. Liz soon showed up at the hospital in Boonville, Missouri with an advance directive stating that her father did not want prolonged treatment to keep him alive. Accordingly, doctors and nurses stopped their life-saving efforts, and William died Oct. 6, 2010. (Kansas City Star)
This criminal case has some interesting parallels to Minneapolis' Albert Barnes guardianship case. That 2011 case also involving a forged advance directive, received significant media coverage. But the Van Note case is far more serious. First, the Barnes advance directive was altered to indicate a patient preference to continue treatment. Here, the advance directive was forged to indicate a patient preference to stop treatment. Second, the Van Note daughter is also alleged to have committed the underlying shooting and stabbing.
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