What happens if you become incapacitated? Who can act on your behalf to take care of you and pay your expenses? If you have not made provisions for these events, then a legal guardian, appointed and supervised by the Court, will make these decisions for you. This process causes delay and can be quite costly. [...]
A will to live, formally called a living will form, is a type of advance directive. These legal forms are usually required to be notarized or signed and dated by witnesses.
A living will form usually covers specific directions as to what kind of medical treatment your caregivers will give you or are not allowed to [...]
It is recommended by the Texas Medical Association that you have a medical power of attorney. Chances are in your lifetime you may be seriously injured, ill, or otherwise unable to make your own medical decisions regarding the kind of medical care, and treatment you desire. If this should happen, a medical power of attorney [...]
A person can issue a letter to another person authorizing him to act in business or legal matters on his behalf and this is called a letter of attorney, or power of attorney in common law. The person who is issuing the power of attorney is known as principal and the person who acts on [...]
Many begin arranging their estate plans when they retire. But they should also arrange for what happens when they become unable to make decisions but are still living.
Dementia and other afflictions leading to mental disabilities destroy our ability to act for ourselves – such as handling our financial and medical decisions. If you haven’t formally [...]
The main purpose of a medical power of attorney form also known as a health care power of attorney form, is made to give some one the right to control the decisions relating to your medical care if you can not communicate those decisions yourself.
You can also use a medical power of attorney form [...]
A Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care (DPOA-HC) is a form that allows us to name a person or persons to make decisions about our health care in case we don’t have the capacity to make those decisions ourselves. It will give direction to the kind of medical treatment we want even If we [...]
A power of attorney form is a legal form that will allow someone to appoint another person to legally act on his or her behalf. The person who creates the POA (power of attorney) is called the principal and the person appointed to act on the principal’s behalf is called the agent.
One need a POA [...]
If you’re like most of us that worry about our future and protecting our property/estate then you need to know how executing a Power of Attorney form can protect you.
All 50 of the U.S. states have a Power of Attorney form that you can use to give one or more person(s) the right to act [...]
A power of attorney agent is often times also called an “attorney-in-fact”. This person is appointed by some one to legally represent them for specific or general tasks or situations. This is done by creating a power of attorney form, it only needs to be notarized (recorded by your county) if it involves real estate. [...]