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Powers of Attorney and Medical Directives

Make plans to ensure your wishes are fulfilled during incapacity.

Making Plans & Providing Guidance for Incapacity

Although many people believe that estate planning only involves planning for the disposition of assets following an individual’s death, planning for an individual’s incapacity can prove to be equally as important. Ritsick Law LLC reviews the decisions that a client must make to effectively plan for incapacity and also provides guidance to those individuals trusted to act in place of a client when he or she is incapacitated.

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Executing Power of Attorney

An individual may execute a durable general power of attorney in which the individual, as the principal, names one or more agents or successor agents to make financial and investment decisions in the event of the principal’s inability to do so.

Similarly, an individual may execute a medical durable power of attorney designating one or more agents to make medical and personal care decisions in the event of his or her inability to provide informed consent.

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Life-Sustaining Procedures & Living Wills

Many individuals also choose to execute a medical directive such as a declaration as to medical or surgical treatment (living will) which provides guidance with respect to provision or withdrawal of “life-sustaining procedures” in the event the individual is in a terminal condition and lacks decisional capacity. A living will may also provide guidance with respect to the provision or withdrawal of artificial nourishment and hydration when life-sustaining procedures have been withdrawn. Even though the condition may not be terminal, the living will may set forth an individual’s wishes with respect to provision or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures if he or she is in a “persistent vegetative state.”

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