Durable Power of Attorney to Protect Your Wishes

Save your family from the grief and anguish caused by making end of life decisions for you by creating a power of attorney. This document gives the person you choose the legal right to make decisions on your behalf should you become incapacitated. Without a power of attorney, your family or the court may have to decide what you would have wanted. To create a power of attorney contact Donna J. Jackson, Attorney at Law, P.C. at 405-840-1874. She represents people throughout central Oklahoma.

Durable Power of Attorney: This authorization, made during your lifetime, gives a person the legal ability to act on your behalf. A durable power of attorney carries on even after you become incapacitated. You can create financial and medical powers of attorney. Medical powers of attorney are also called living wills or advance directives.

Financial Durable Power of Attorney

A person who has power of attorney handles your finances if you become incapacitated from an accident or illness. Failing to appoint a power of attorney may force the court to appoint a guardian instead. Keep the court out your financial affairs by drafting a durable power of attorney.

Common powers created under a durable of attorney are:

• Authority to pay designators bills and expenses
• Ability to sign documents in the name of the designator
• Make health care decision for you if you become incapacitated

Attorney Donna J. Jackson has over twenty years experience representing people seeking to create a durable power of attorney. She advises people to create a power of attorney to save their families from the cost and expense of having the court appoint a guardian. It is important to have control over who makes important decisions in your life when you become incapacitated. We also make sure you sign a HIPAA medical release form granting doctors the ability to inform your family members about your medical condition.

If you have questions about a durable power of attorney, call Donna J. Jackson, Attorney at Law, P.C. at 405-840-1874. Please fill out the attached contact us form with any information you have for us.