Living Wills and Powers of Attorney for California (eBook)

Shae Irving (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020 | 6., Sixth Edition
160 Seiten
Nolo (Verlag)
978-1-4133-2712-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Every adult, even those who haven’t yet made a will or trust, should create an advance directive and financial power of attorney. This book makes it easy and inexpensive to create these documents. Having these documents in place can spare your family from having to make difficult and painful end-of-life decisions, and can eliminate the need to go to court to get control over your finances if something happens and you can’t take care of them yourself.

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A serious accident or illness can happen to anyone at any time. That’s why everyone should have these essential documents:

An advance health care directive (also called a living will and durable power of attorney for health care), which lets you state your wishes for end-of-life medical care and name a trusted person who will work with your doctors to be sure you get the kind of care you want.

A durable power of attorney for finances, which lets you appoint someone you trust to manage your finances for you if you no longer can.

The book explains how to create these forms to comply with California law, and how they can be used to help your family.

The book also contains instructions for obtaining a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order or a Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form, either of which can be used to let emergency medical responders know that you don’t want certain extreme measures to be used to revive you.

Includes forms for both medical care and finances. New edition is fully updated for 2018.

Inhalt

1. Planning Ahead—An Overview

2. Advance Health Care Directives

3. Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Orders

4. Durable Powers of Attorney for Finances

5. Help Beyond the Book

Appendixes:

A. How to Use the Interactive Forms

B. Forms

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.1.2020
• Zusatzinfo: charts, tables, graphs, forms
• Verlagsort: Berkeley
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern
• Schlagworte: advance healthcare directive • California POLST • California power of attorney • Death • dnr • Elder • Estate • Estate Planning • Law • legal • living will forms • Medical • Medical Care • medical power of attorney • nolo • personal finance • Right to Die • self help legal • US • will • Wills
• ISBN-10: 1-4133-2712-5 / 1413327125
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4133-2712-0 / 9781413327120