Category Archives: Estate Planning

Estate Planning – Durable Power of Attorney

DURABLE POWER OF ATTORNEY The prior blog entry described the Health Care Proxy and the HIPAA Release documents. These documents provide for someone of your choosing to make health care decisions for you in the event you cannot make them for yourself, and receive information about your medical condition. These documents don’t allow your chosen…

What Is An Estate Plan & Health Care Documents

An “ESTATE PLAN”….sounds complicated and a bit grand.  I can’t possibly have an “estate.”  Surprise, we all have an estate.  If we own our own home, a car, a bank account, a retirement account, a stamp collection, a piece of art, a pet, children, etc., this makes up our estate. What an estate plan allows…