10 Useful Provisions Every Power Of Attorney Should Have

Build your estate plan online! MyAdvocate is the online solution for creating and maintaining your Will and all other legally-valid estate planning documents. Click the link below to get started! -- Just about everyone who puts an estate legal program in order signs one or more power of attorney legal documents. If you become incapacitated and you have not put a power of attorney in place, it is likely that your family will have to pursue a legal action against you in order to have a judge declare you incompetent, and have a judge name someone as your legal guardian, to handle matters for you while you are alive but incapacitated. Note that the specific provisions of our power of attorney law may be somewhat different that other states, but this should give you an ideal of issues that may come up when dealing with a power of attorney. The following are ten provisions everyone should consider when creating a power of attorney: