Estate Planning to Avoid Hurt Feelings, Family Battles, and A Royal Mess
Without an estate plan in place, and that includes a will, power of attorney, and health care directives, dividing up an...
Category: Durable Power of Attorney
Understand why a durable power of attorney is essential for protecting your financial and health decisions.
Power of Attorney: Do You Have One?
Wise incompetency planning usually includes the execution of a power of attorney. This document names an agent who can sign...
How Can I Protect a Loved One From Elder Abuse?
The (Lorain OH) Morning Journal's recent article, "How to protect elder loved ones from abuse," reports that the National...
Why Do I Need an Estate Plan?
Estate planning isn't only for the rich. Without a plan in place, there could be a long-lasting impact on your loved ones,...
Can a Substitution Be Named for a Power of Attorney?
Historically, the purpose of a power of attorney is to select an agent (and ideally, successor agents) to act, in case you...
Incapacity Management: Do I Have All The Right Documents?
A Power of Attorney is a vital document for every adult. This document allows you to appoint another person as your...
Waited Too Long to Save for Retirement? Here Are Six Things You Can Still Do
In a perfect world, we'd all have saved enough by age 60 to relax about money and start planning our golden years. However,...
Who Would You Trust with Your Life? Health Care Power of Attorney
Selecting someone to make health care decisions for you when you are unable, requires a great deal of trust and is...
Are You Making Some of the Biggest Estate-Planning Mistakes
There are some things we just don't like to think about, much less speak about. The universal truth is we are all going to...
The Most Important Thing You Can Do For Your Aging Parents
A friend relayed a story that is one I hear all too often when it comes to caring for aging parents.Her friend, I'll call...