What "EXACTLY" is the "LEGALLY" part of Legally Disabled....??

[Sourdough]

A person can be disabled but is required to be "LEGALLY" Disabled. Do you petition the courts..??

(Which begs the question can you be illegally disabled)

 

[Frodo]

I am not a lawyer or Doctor but I think in order to be legally disabled it requires a medical Doctor to affirm you have a disability

 

[Sourdough]

OK, well I have been doing some internet search stuff, it appears there really is no "Legally" about it as in a court order, or some legal document.

As near I can tell it primarily refers to applying for government benefit programs. Which bewilders me as to the "Legally" part of disabled.

 

[Frodo]

I am disabled and in order to obtain social security disability benefits it required a Dr to sign off that I was indeed disabled
After that hurtle. All that is needed is to show proof of social security disability benefits for tags, taxes, etc etc
If disabled you are sent a form every year that has your benefit details this is the form “they” want to see

Here is the process
Go to the SS office and request what ever form they require to apply for disability
Take that form to your dr and have him/her fill in with as much detail as possible what your matter is
Turn the form into SS
They will contact you and have you go to a SS approved Dr. Who will evaluate your disability
Mine asked me to pick up a box off the floor that weighed 50 pounds. I told no. I will not put myself through that pain
He signed my papers. Lol
If the Dr agrees with your Dr then after a few weeks you will be approved

When approved then you are legally disabled your condition has been vetted

 

[Sourdough]

I am disabled and in order to obtain social security disability benefits it required a Dr to sign off that I was indeed disabled
After that hurtle. All that is needed is to show proof of social security disability benefits for tags, taxes, etc etc
If disabled you are sent a form every year that has your benefit details this is the form “they” want to see

Here is the process
Go to the SS office and request what ever form they require to apply for disability
Take that form to your dr and have him/her fill in with as much detail as possible what your matter is
Turn the form into SS
They will contact you and have you go to a SS approved Dr. Who will evaluate your disability
Mine asked me to pick up a box off the floor that weighed 50 pounds. I told no. I will not put myself through that pain
He signed my papers. Lol
If the Dr agrees with your Dr then after a few weeks you will be approved

When approved then you are legally disabled your condition has been vetted

I still don't grasp the "legally" part. For example, for me to get "LEGALLY" emancipated from my parents, required a lawyer filing paperwork, an appearance in court before a judge, who ruled, and signed the legal and recorded document to be declared "LEGALLY" emancipated.

 

[Frodo]

Same thing
Instead of a lawyer it requires a Dr

If the parents did not contest the action then it would not require an appearance just a signature with both parties agreeing

 

[Haertig]

I still don't grasp the "legally" part. For example, for me to get "LEGALLY" emancipated from my parents, required a lawyer filing paperwork, an appearance in court before a judge, who ruled, and signed the legal and recorded document to be declared "LEGALLY" emancipated.

I think in this context, "legally" simply means "in the eyes of the law".

I would think it's somewhat like a service animal for a disabled individual. Service animals must be allowed into restaurants. However, a yapping chihuahua that is biting other customers and peeing on their shoes probably doesn't count as a service animal in the eyes of the law, and a restaurant owner could kick you and your little yapping monster out of the restaurant, regardless of whether you call the thing a "service animal" or not.

Simply claiming that you are disabled does not get your disability benefits. That is going to require some kind of documentation. That does not mean you have to go to court to become "legally" disabled. But you need something more than just a simple claim. Note that this is in direct contrast to how a man can become a woman these days. For that, a simple claim - no mater how preposterous - is sufficient.

 

[lonewolf]

over here it usually takes a doctors letter.

 

[Frodo]

Example, disabled car tag

Without a letter from a Dr you can not legally display one