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LOL. Well, then, I guess you'd better explain how your Probate Attorney's Full Employment Act will create an "interested person who may reasonably be expected to be directly affected by the surrogate or proxy's decision". And assuming we get through those rapids, we can then contemplate the practical day-to-day effects of the scheme you're proposing. Basically, every incapacitated person automatically gets a court-appointed attorney, which, of course, the state will have to fund. Then, even better, that court-appointed attorney, a complete stranger to the family, now has effective veto power over the legal guardian by virtue of the fact that they're empowered to tie the guardian up in court from now until the end of time. Well, hell - why didn't you just say so? That's just the sort of intrusion that people will welcome with open arms, I'm sure. LOL. I think you should write your congressman and your state rep with that plan, and see if they don't drop it like a hot rock.