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Do-It-Yourself
Living Will Kit
With the use of this Living Will kit,
decisions can be made NOW regarding your medical and financial
situation should you become incapacitated. This kit includes Living
Will forms and Durable Power of Attorney forms for both health care
and financial care, along with complete instructions for their use.
What
Does This Kit Contain?
This kit contains all the legal documents
you need to successfully prepare a legally binding living will and
durable power of attorney for both financial and health care. All the
forms are in a fill-in-the-blank format. Also included are
instructions explaining how to prepare the forms and then what to do
with them when finished.
Living
Will & Durable Power Of Attorney
What would you do if you were involved in a
serious accident or had an illness such as Alzheimer's Disease? With a
living will and durable power of attorney, you can prepare now should
you be incapacitated later. All medical and financial decisions will
be made ahead of time.
Without a living will, it's quite possible the state, and not the
dying person's family, will decide whether life support systems will
be used or not. In many cases, the state decides against the family
wishes because of the fear of a possible lawsuit.
What
Is A Living Will And Durable Power Of Attorney?
A living will is a legal document which is
prepared when a person is mentally competent which will dictate a
person's wish not to be kept alive on life support machines after they
may become brain dead in a serious accident or from an illness.
A durable power of attorney is a legal document which authorizes one
person to act on behalf of the individual granting the durable power
of attorney to make financial and/or medical decisions on the
individual's behalf should the individual become incapacitated.
"Durable" means the power of attorney survives if the
individual preparing it becomes incapacitated. If no durable power of
attorney is prepared and the individual becomes incapacitated, the
court will appoint a guardian or conservator to make the decisions.
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