How do you enter household services?Applies To: Personal Injury, Wrongful Death |
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How do you enter household services?Applies To: Personal Injury, Wrongful Death |
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Entering household services is not as hard as it first seems. But it is definitely harder than entering employment or expenses. That's because household services are inherently more difficult to model. The services an individual provides can vary with numerous factors, such as employment and marital status, as opposed to the comparatively straight-forward calculations of earnings and expenses. The value of household services is also an abstract concept. In real life no one pays you for the chores you do around the house. So putting a dollar value on those activities is not as simple as reviewing pay stubs or doctors' bills.
You define household services at point-in-time events. Let's break that down into its two component concepts:
| 1. | An event is an occurrence in the subject's life that changes the services he performs. Examples include starting a new job, beginning care for a new dependent, and the subject's retirement. In a personal injury case the most significant household services event is usually the injury that led to the legal case. |
| 2. | What point-in-time means is that the services defined for an event remain in effect until new services are defined at a later event. If you define services at the Injury/Damages Date event and do not define services at any subsequent events, then the services you defined at the Injury/Damages Date will remain in effect for the entire damages period. |
Household services events are divided into two groups: standard and custom.
| • | Standard events are generated automatically and are linked to the dates of the underlying data. For example, the start date of a job is linked to the job's definition. Change the date the job starts and the corresponding household services event will move to the new date. |
| • | You define custom events yourself. You use them to add events that are independent of the other data for the case. For example, if the subject gets married you can add a custom event to define the services he performs now that his marital status has changed. |
For more information about event types select the application you are using:
Household services events appear in a vertical timeline with the earliest events at the top and the latest events at the bottom. You define services for an event using the Add or Edit button in the event's row.
No, you do not. You only need to define services at the events that change the services the individual performs. So if your timeline looks like the image below, with Edit and Delete buttons for every record, you have done more work than you had to. Instead your timeline should look more like the Event Timeline image shown above, with most records still showing an Add button.
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