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Power of Attorney
Durable Power Of Attorney
With Power of Attorney (POA) you can appoint someone to manage important financial, legal, and health matters on your behalf. This document provides for the handling of important matters should you become unable to perform due to incapacity. Obtain flexibility and reliability when protecting yourself or your assets. Assign POA for specific purposes: Health Care POA, Financial POA, Durable POA, etc. Our service is efficient & affordable. Your documents are accurate & complete.
It helps you take control:
You can appoint someone to manage important financial and legal matters on your behalf. Obtain flexibility and reliability when protecting your assets.
We don’t use “generic forms” with check-boxes & fill in the blanks, like the others do. Instead, we fully customize your document package. You are unique and your legal matter is important. Additional documents may include: Living Will, Simple Trust, Will Codicil, and the “My Life Package.”
We can provide you with related documents that may further assist you with your future plans: Living Will, Power of Attorney, Simple Trust, Healthcare Directive, and Guardianship Directive.
Limited, Durable or Special POA:
A power of attorney (POA) or letter of attorney is a written authorization to represent or act on another’s behalf in private affairs, business, or some other legal matter. The person authorizing the other to act is the principal, grantor, or donor (of the power), and the one authorized to act is the agent, or attorney or in some common law jurisdictions, the attorney-in-fact. Formerly, a power referred to an instrument under seal while a letter was an instrument under hand, but today both are under hand (i.e., signed by the donor), and therefore there is no difference between the two.
Under the common law, a power of attorney becomes ineffective if its grantor dies or becomes “incapacitated,” meaning unable to grant such a power, because of physical injury or mental illness, for example, unless the grantor (or principal) specifies that the power of attorney will continue to be effective even if the grantor becomes incapacitated. Please see our Frequently Asked Questions. In most States, a POA (power of attorney) requires notarization and the signature of at least one witness.