Category Archives: Power of Attorney
Picking The Right Person To Act As Your Power Of Attorney In Tampa
Accidental injuries and sudden, severe illnesses have the potential to be incapacitating. This is often heartbreaking for families, and disputes may arise due to having to guess what their loved one may have wanted. It can also prove financially devastating, resulting in significant lost assets or income. To protect yourself, it is important to… Read More »
Who Should I Select as My Power of Attorney?
Power of attorney is an important, foundational estate planning tool. It is a written document that you can use to give a trusted person legal authority to act on your behalf in the event that you are not able to manage your own affairs. This raises an important question: Who should you pick as… Read More »
When Can Power of Attorney Be Removed in Florida?
Through a power of attorney, a trusted person can make legal and/or financial decisions on behalf of another person. For many people, powers of attorneys are an important part of a comprehensive estate plan. To be clear, a power of attorney is not necessarily permanent. Under Florida law (Florida Statutes § 709.2109), powers of… Read More »
What is the Difference Among a Power of Attorney, a Health Care Power of Attorney, and a Living Will?
If you are thinking about drafting estate planning documents in Florida, you may have heard about both a power of attorney and the more specific health care power of attorney. Whether you are putting plans in place because you recently had children and want to plan for the future, or if you are getting… Read More »
Understanding The Different Types Of Power Of Attorney
An important part of estate planning is determining which loved ones will have power of attorney for you in the event you are incapacitated or otherwise unable to make your own decisions. By having power of attorney, they have the right to make decisions on your behalf that you cannot make yourself, such as… Read More »
Estate Planning for Family Members with Special Needs
Planning for the future of one’s family after death requires considerable thought about what arrangement would be best for each person individually and the group overall. Certainly, estate plans can take a number of forms, which allows anyone a good amount of flexibility when deciding which alternative to choose. However, this process quickly becomes… Read More »
Using a Power of Attorney to Protect a Person’s Finance
Parents derive a lot of pride and satisfaction in watching their children grow into independent and self-sufficient adults. This process includes a number of steps and transitions along the way, and at some point, the parent must take on a different role in their child’s life and in society. This societal shift comes when… Read More »
Powers of Attorney and How They Fit into Your Estate Plan
One of the key benefits to becoming a legal adult is the ability to make your own decisions and enter into legally binding agreements. Prior to reaching this life stage, a person is not permitted to things like buy a car, open a bank account, or make health care decisions without the consent of… Read More »
New Law Outlines Access to Online Accounts of the Deceased
Until relatively recently, important documents, like wills and trusts, were commonly kept in home safes or bank safety deposit boxes to protect the information from theft, destruction or alteration. A person might have also opted to keep duplicate copies in different locations as a failsafe. However, as technology and people become more and more… Read More »
Duties of a Personal Representative in Probate Proceedings
When a person dies it is not uncommon for loved ones to have questions about how to handle and distribute the deceased’s property according to the terms of a will or trust, or under Florida law for those dying without wills, or intestate. Most estates must enter a process called probate in order to… Read More »