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Your “Will” only applies when you die. Your executors do not have power to make decisions for you during your lifetime.

An alternate decision maker (attorney) with power to make decisions for you during your lifetime is appointed by a Power of Attorney. If the power is to endure though an incapacity you may experience, the power needs to be expressed to be Enduring (and comply with legal requirements as to its form and manner of being signed).

The importance of having an alternate decision maker during your lifetime is illustrated in these examples:

Financial decision making

• If you are overseas on extend travel and you need a document signed or money transferred
• If you are injured or incapacitated and need a document signed or bills paid

Health decision making

If you are incapacitated and unable to make medical treatment decisions for yourself an appointment of an alternate decision maker (that endures through incapacity) provides your loved ones with certainty about who makes these decisions for you.

Online Power of Attorney resources

Victorian Financial Enduring Power of Attorney - For 1 | Vic Financial Enduring Power Of Attorney - For 2

South Australian General/Enduring Power of Attorney - For 1 | South Australian General/Enduring Power of Attorney - For 2

NSW Enduring/General Power of Attorney - For 1 | NSW Enduring/General Power of Attorney - For 2

Western Australian Enduring Power of Attorney - For 1 | Western Australian Enduring Power of Attorney - For 2

Queensland Enduring Power of Attorney - For 1 | Queensland Enduring Power of Attorney - For 2

More online resources: www.onlinelegal.com.au

Consider this - you’re injured in a serious accident. Who makes decisions for you? Have your given someone power to do this? Have you let them know what your wishes are?

There can be a prolonged time between injury and death and many opportunities for dispute between family members about just what decisions you would have wanted to make about financial matters and medical treatment.

Be a peace-maker and settle the dispute now. Give clear authority to someone to make decisions for you in the event that you are incapacitated. You do this with an Enduring Power of Attorney.

Tips:

• Appoint someone who is close enough to you to know what your wishes would be
• If you Appoint more than one person, be sure that they are going to be able to agree

Many folk put off making an Enduring Power of Attorney until late in life. Sadly, this can sometimes open the way for doubt dispute about whether you had capacity to make the document. A recent Queensland Supreme Court case concerning an incapacitated Mr Edward McBryde shows just how important it is to make an Enduring Power of Attorney early.

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Qld Enduring Power of Attorney LawPack

SA General/Enduring Power Of Attorney LawPack

Vic Financial Enduring Power Of Attorney LawPack

WA Enduring Power Of Attorney LawPack

An Enduring Power of Attorney should form part of every estate plan.

Estate Planning without an Enduring Power of Attorney is craziness. Your Will only operates on your death. It takes a lot less to get sick.

An Enduring Power of Attorney is sometimes called a “Living Will” as it provides power to those you appoint to make decisions on your behalf during a time that you may be incapable of making such decisions for yourself.

An Enduring Power of Attorney is a simple and yet powerful document. Loved ones have the power to make necessary decisions and access any funds that may be needed to pay for appropriate care for you. Without an Enduring Power of Attorney, decisions can be protracted and expensive with the possibility of loved ones needing to obtain court orders to have decisions made.

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