Power of Attorney Assignment (PoA) with Confidence
Website design By BotEap.comIt is important to plan for disability, ensuring that there is a strategy in place in case you ever become unable to manage your affairs.
Website design By BotEap.comWe all know that. However, it is uncomfortable to think about and therefore easy to put off.
Website design By BotEap.comA key part of disability planning is assigning a power of attorney (a legal document that gives someone else the right to act on your behalf), but it’s also the biggest hurdle. Thinking more about who you choose and what powers will be given to you can give you the peace of mind of completing your plan with confidence.
Website design By BotEap.comChoose your lawyer
Website design By BotEap.comIt is essential to choose someone you trust to give you power. Acting as your attorney involves important duties and obligations. Your attorney’s primary duty is to act with honesty, integrity, and in good faith for your benefit if you become incapable.
Website design By BotEap.comThe law establishes specific obligations for the person chosen to have his power. Among other things, they:
- explain your powers and duties to the incapacitated person
- encourage the incapacitated person, to the best of their ability, to participate in decisions regarding their property
- Encourage regular personal contact between the disabled person and supportive family and friends, and
- keep an account of all transactions involving the property of the grantor.
- Make a quick decision: Many people name their PoAs without thinking about their financial capacity of choice, much less their ability to get along with other family members.
- Assuming that family is always the best option: It is much more important to choose someone who truly cares about the best interests of their client.
- Waiting too long: If the issue of declining capacity already exists, it’s probably too late to make a power of attorney ironclad.
- Failure to review it – Changing life circumstances and new provincial legislation can invalidate an old PoA.
- You tell the lawyer that you want him to start acting;
- You are declared legally incapable of managing your property;
- One or more physicians report that they would benefit from assistance in managing their affairs; gold
- Certain family members advise that the attorney begin to act.