The topics of each episode, written for you to read at your own pace.
Family & Inheritance
Repatriating a body costs $15,000 to $30,000, and the Brazilian government, as a rule, doesn't pay. What life insurance costs for people who live here, the travel insurance that covers repatriation, the requirement for exchange visitors and the free tool to find out whether the person had a policy.
Family & Inheritance
The pastor who is, on paper, the legal caretaker of a friend's son explains why this needs to be in writing. What California law provides for naming a guardian, the temporary authorization for caregivers, and where to keep the documents your family will need.
Rights & Documents
The consulate doesn't pay the funeral home, doesn't deal with the hospital and doesn't handle repatriation. What it does is the Brazilian side of the paperwork: registering the death, powers of attorney and documents for an inheritance. Here's where the American notary and the California apostille come in.
Episode 3 · Part 4 of 5
Insurance, bank accounts, property, car, storage unit, doctor and documents: the list that closes the "911: Emergency in Los Angeles" series. Plus a warning the episode doesn't give: a power of attorney ends at death — for what comes after, the tool is a different one.
Episode 3 · Part 3 of 5
Cremation costs about a fifth of repatriating a body, and the ashes can travel in carry-on luggage. What the airline and the TSA require, which documents to bring, and why you can't just toss the ashes at the beach.
Episode 3 · Part 2 of 5
Repatriating a body costs $15,000 to $30,000, and the Brazilian government, as a rule, doesn't pay. What life insurance costs for people who live here, the travel insurance that covers repatriation, the requirement for exchange visitors and the free tool to find out whether the person had a policy.
Episode 2 · Part 4 of 5
The 1994 Northridge earthquake brought down freeway overpasses and buildings in Los Angeles. The pastor who arrived soon after and the host who took CERT training share what they saw — and what science and emergency agencies recommend today.
Episode 2 · Part 1 of 5
In Brazil there are three numbers; in the United States, just one. What happens when you call, when to use 911 and when to use the police non-emergency line, how to ask for a Portuguese interpreter and what to do if you can't speak.
Episode 5 · Part 2 of 6
It is the problem that most often brings Brazilians to the consulate's legal assistance program. Why what is "normal" in Brazil can get you arrested here, how a restraining order works, what happens when the police arrive — and the protections for immigrant victims.
Episode 3 · Part 1 of 5
The consulate doesn't pay the funeral home, doesn't deal with the hospital and doesn't handle repatriation. What it does is the Brazilian side of the paperwork: registering the death, powers of attorney and documents for an inheritance. Here's where the American notary and the California apostille come in.
Episode 1 · Part 1 of 4
Calling 911, waiting for police and paramedics, the Medical Examiner or the funeral home: a step-by-step look at what happens when someone dies alone in Los Angeles — and why having a doctor and an emergency contact changes everything.
