Incapacity/ Incompetency Planning:
Often, people focus on estate planning for asset transfer but overlook the importance of planning for incapacity or incompetency. We help clients secure their wishes through three key tools: Durable Powers of Attorney, Advance Health Care Directives, and Dispositions of Remains.
Durable General Power of Attorney
- Allows creator to choose a trusted individual to make business and financial decisions in the event that the creator is not able to make his or her own decisions.
Advance Health Care Directive
- Power of attorney allowing the creator to make advance decisions about treatments for possible future health problems;
- Allows the creator to name a trusted individual who will make medical decisions in the event that the creator can not make his or her own decisions. Power of attorney allowing the creator to make advance decisions about treatments for possible future health problems;
- Allows the creator to name a trusted individual who will make medical decisions in the event that the creator can not make his or her own decisions.
Disposition of Remains Power of Attorney
- Allows creator to choose a trusted individual to make funeral and cremation decisions in the event that there is no "next of kin" (or if the existing next of kin does not agree with the disposition decision of the creator) to do so.