Faculty

Kate Mewhinney

Managing Attorney, The Elder Law Clinic
Clinical Professor of Law

Phone: 336.713.8630
Email: mewhinka@wfu.edu

  • The Rights of Older Persons: Collection of International Documents, Editors:  Israel Doron and Kate Mewhinney (2007); publisher International Federation on Ageing and JDC-ESHEL.
  • "North Carolina Tries Mediation for Estate and Guardianship Disputes," Bifocal (newsletter of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging), Feb. 2007, Vol. 28, No. 3,
  • "Ideals and High Heels: A Look at Wake Forest University's Elder Law Clinic." The North Carolina State Bar Journal, Vol. 11, No. 3, Fall 2006,
  • "Gifts with Powers of Attorney -- Are We Giving the Public What it Wants?" 35 Wake Forest Jurist Magazine (Summer 2005) 14-17. Reprinted in The North Carolina State Bar Journal, Vol. X, No. 4, Winter 2005.   Reprinted in "Experience" magazine, ABA Senior Lawyers Division, Vol. 16, No. 3, Spring 2006.
  • "Is There a Lawyer in the House?  Wake Forest's Medical/Legal Collaboration," Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center Report, Winter 2002.
  • "Variables Predicting the Completion of an Advance Directive by Older Adults," C. Colenda, M.D., M.P.H.; M. Jensen, PhD; J. Foster, M.Div.; B. Kendrick, D.Min.; K. Mewhinney, J.D.; and C. Messick, M.D., M.S..  Annals of Long-Term Care, Vol. 6 No. 3, March 1998.
  • Author, "A Youthful Approach to Elder Law," Experience Magazine (ABA Senior Lawyers Division), Winter 1996.
  • Book review of Advance Medical Directives by Alan J. Lieberson, J.D., M.D., in The ElderLaw Report (Little Brown), March 1996.
  • "The Deed That Bites Back: Why You Need to Know About Medicaid," N.C. Bar Asso. Real Property Section Newsletter, April 1994; reprinted in NCBA General Practice Section Newsletter, Sept. 1994.
  • "Legal Aspects of Geriatric Medicine" chapter, Principles of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, (3rd ed.) Hazzard WR, Andres R, Bierman EL, Blass JP; McGraw-Hill 1993.

Articles in Elder Law, newsletter of the N.C. Bar Association Elder Law Section:

  • "The Mediator:  Coming Soon to a Guardianship Case Near You?" March 2005;
  • "Three Simple Steps Lawyers Can Take to Protect a Home:  Medicaid and the 'Intent to Return Home' Rule," March 2003, with John T. Griffin,  law student; reprinted in newsletters of NCBA Real Property Section (June 2003) and Estate Planning Section (Nov. 2003).
  • "Elder Law Becoming Popular Specialization for Recent Grads," June 2002;
  • "Medicaid Myths," March 2002;
  • "Prosecuting and Preventing Financial Abuse Under Powers of Attorney," Jan. 2002, with Alex MacClenahan, third year law student.