Estate Planning Essential Documents
When you are preparing a will or trust to administer your estate upon death, every person should consider implementing the following legal documents to ensure that your affairs are properly handled during your lifetime when you are preparing for your estate planning in Jacksonville.
Durable Power of Attorney
This document would appoint another person, known as an attorney-in-fact, to make business, financial and legal decisions for you in the event that you are incapacitated or otherwise unable to act. A Durable Power of Attorney can reduce or eliminate the need and cost needed to secure a court-appointed guardian to manage your affairs in the event you should become unable to handle them yourself.
Designation of Health Care Surrogate
This document allows you to appoint another person, known as your health care surrogate, to make medical decisions for you in the event you are incapacitated or otherwise unable to consent to medical treatment.
Living Will
This document provides your health care surrogate and health care binding instructions concerning the circumstances in which life-prolonging medical procedures which provide no curative benefit may be withheld or withdrawn.
Declaration of Preneed Guardian
This document allows you to appoint who will serve as your guardian in the unlikely event your affairs cannot be properly administered by your attorney-in-fact and health care surrogate.
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