Throughout this series on financial powers of attorney, I have stated that everyone should have a financial power of attorney (FPOA). This document enables you to give legal authority to an agent to assist you in managing your financial affairs. It protects you in case...

It is very important to get a financial power of attorney (FPOA). This is a document that allows you to give legal authority to an agent to help you manage your financial affairs. There are different FPOA for different purposes. In this article we will be focused on FP...

A financial power of attorney (FPOA) is important to have. It gives someone else the authority to handle your financial affairs. If you have the capacity to make financial decisions, the agent that you choose can still act at your direction, without you giving up the p...

So far in this series on financial powers of attorney (FPoA), we discussed the basics of what a power of attorney (PoA) is, and then detailed a FPoA’s flexibility by going through many of the customizations that you can make. In brief, a power of attorney is a document...

In our previous article we introduced the financial power of attorney (PoA) and discussed some of the basic vocabulary and types. In this article we will look more deeply at the customizability of the financial power of attorney. A PoA is a very flexible document that...

A power of attorney (PoA) is a valuable document for everyone to have. In fact, every person over the age of 18 should have at least two PoA, one for healthcare and one for financial matters. A health care PoA is also called a Health Care Proxy. We previously spoke abo...

It is sometimes the case that when a person writes a will for themselves, they do not include their spouse as a beneficiary. Sometimes this is because of troubles in the marriage. Sometimes it is because the spouse is being taken care of some other way and doesn’t. It’...

People disinherit their children for a number of reasons. Maybe there are tax reasons, maybe to avoid making the child ineligible for government benefits or perhaps because of estrangement. If you are looking to disinherit a child and would like to avoid potential hurt...