Power of Attorney is a document that gives another person legal authority to act on your behalf in financial matters. If you create such a document, you are called the principal, and the person to whom you give this authority is called your attorney-in-fact. If you make a durable power of attorney, the document will continue in effect even if you become incapacitated.

 

 

QUICK LINKS 

The following are some helpful quick links to the definitions of commonly used Estate Planning terms:

• Wills

• Trusts

• Probate

• Power of Attorney

• Advance Health Care Directive

• Conservator

• Special Needs Trust