Law 2101 Lecture 4: power of attorney
27 Dec 2018
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Power of attorney: legal document that allows you to appoint someone to act on your behalf. Personal care poa: medical care and treatment decisions. Someone looks over your property; land, money, banking. Authorizes attorney anything the grantor can do with respect to property. Not everyone can be poa; have to capacity. Must be 2 witnesses for the signatures of grantor. Must expressly state that they are intending to be continuing poa or can be exercised in grantor"s incapacity. Even if something happens to you, poa remains. Some people put in a restriction that if they lose mental capacity, poa no longer valid. If person does not say how they want to measure their capacity. A person is capable if they know what value of what they have so they know what they are giving away. Grantor must be aware of obligations owe to his/her dependants.
