Powers of Attorney are part of even the simplest estate plan. A Power of Attorney allows your Agent to act for you. There are Powers of Attorney for financial matters and also those for health care.
Estate Planning
The Basics: Powers of Attorney for Healthcare
Powers of Attorney are part of even the simplest estate plan. A Power of Attorney allows your Agent to act for you. There are Powers of Attorney for financial matters and also those for health care. This article concerns the Healthcare Powers of Attorney and Advance Directives.
Who Should I Make My Trustee?
Embed from Getty Images One of the first questions to be asked is who is going to be the trustee. Or in other words, “Who do you trust?” It really all depends on the purpose of the trust. As we spoke last week about a very short term, limited purpose trust, the answer was almost […]
What is a Trust?
A trust is actually a quite simple concept, though it is often couched in such mystery as to make it look very complicated and difficult to understand. As we do things, we create trusts, manage them, and terminate them often, often in a single day. Let us imagine we take our family to the beach […]
Make Your Own Plan
Planning is important. If you don’t plan, your assets go pursuant to the state’s default plan, which may be very different from what you want. If you plan, you can be sure your assets go exactly to whom you want and in a manner that can benefit them the most.