Are your legal documents in order?

As you hunker down and focus on the health of your families, your loved ones, your neighbors, and the nation, as a whole, it is an opportune time to review those documents and communication tools that might be needed if you are unable to make decisions yourself (either due to illness or just the inability to leave your residence). Two important documents, your Financial and Healthcare Powers of Attorney, help ensure that you don’t miss a beat. If your Financial Power of Attorney (FPOA) was signed prior to 2015, it may be missing new statutory language that is required by many financial institutions. Making sure your Healthcare document has adequate HIPAA language is also important.

If you’d like to get started, contact our trusted partners at Aevitas Law by emailing info@aevitas.law.

You can learn more about these documents and the process at aevitas.law/blog/.

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