Durable Power of Attorney for Medical Purposes • Medical or Health Care Proxy • Living Wills
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Health Care or Medical Proxy One form of a advance medical directive is the health care proxy. In case you are unable to render a decision, it names a person to act on your behalf (a surrogate, proxy, decision-maker) in regards to the preference of treatment. A durable power of attorney is equivalent somewhat to a health care or medical proxy.
  • This is a legal document that gives the surrogate the same rights as you had to make medical decisions on your behalf.
  • Gives the right to accept or refuse treatments

   In case you are disabled or medically incapacitated, a Durable Power of Attorney for Medical Reasons is a legal document that names the person who will take care of your banking transactions, sign Social Security checks, write checks to take care of finances. If this document is not prepared properly, your finances may be handled in ways that you would not agree with.
   • A durable power of attorney does not need to expire in contrast to a plain power of attorney which does expire.
   • You must be competent when a durable power of attorney is created.

When you become well again you can naturally revoke or amend the power of attorney.

A Living Will indicates the Do's and Do Not's in case you are incapacitated. If this document is not prepared properly, your medical treatment may be handled in ways that would not agree to your wishes.
   • A living will automatically becomes your directive in case you are unconscious, severely ill or nearing the end of your life.
  • Can indicate if your wish is to become resuscitated if you stop breathing
  • If you want to receive forced feeding
  • Specific instructions for analgesia (pain relief), hydration, antibiotics, feeding, the use of ventilators or cardiopulmonary resuscitation and other medical procedures can be specified.
  • If the attending physician determines that your condition is terminal you may elect to discontinue any life-sustaining measures that would prolong dying.
  • If no decision is made hospitals and doctors will follow their own policies. That could mean keeping you alive no matter what, with any means possible. It is not science fiction that one could be kept alive indefinitely without will or volition.
  • A successor agent should be named in case the original agent is not able or willing to continue with the task.

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Living Trust Form for Married Individual with Children but without Trust for Children
Living Trust Form for Married Individual with Children with Trust for Children
Living Trust Form for Married Individual with No Children
Living Trust Form for Non-Married Individual
Living Trust Kit
Living Will & Power of Attorney for Health Care Kit
Notice of Death-with-Dignity Request
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Pour-Over Will for Married Individual with Children (For Use with Living Trust)
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Pour-Over Will for Non-Married Individual (For Use with Living Trust)
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Revocable One-Party Living Trust
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Revocation of Power of Attorney
Revocation of Trust
Schedule of Assets
Schedule of Beneficiaries
Statement of Wishes
Will Form for Married Individual with Children But Without Trust For Children
Will Form for Married Individual with Children with Trust for Children
Will Form for Married Individual with No Children
Will Form for Non-Married Individual

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