Linarducci & Butler - Practice Areas
 

Social Security Personal Injury Wills Estates/ Probate Real Estate

WILLS

This office prepares several types of Instruments; including:

1. Last Will and Testament;

2. Living Will; and

3. Durable Power of Attorney.

LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT

A Last Will and Testament is a legal instrument that enables you to distribute your assets to family members, friends, and charities according to your personal wishes and specifications. Typically, the assets you distribute include all real estate, physical (tangible) property, and any other financial assets in your possession at the time of your death. At your direction, you may bequeath specific gifts to whomever you wish to ensure that specific property goes to a specific loved one. In addition, you may direct that children not receive their distribution by utilizing a trust for that child within the Last Will and Testament. If necessary or desired, you may direct the sale of your real estate in order to provide additional financial assets upon distribution.

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LIVING WILLS

This instrument, sometimes referred to as an “Advanced Health-Care Directive”, enables a competent individual to issue directions regarding his or her health care, in the event that the competent individual becomes unable to communicate his or her intentions regarding continued health care. The intentions expressed in this instrument include, but are not limited to: (1) decisions regarding the continuation of treatment when the declarant has a “qualifying condition” such as a “terminal condition” (no reasonable medical expectation of recovery and death will result whether or not medical intervention is performed) and/or “permanent unconsciousness” (total and irreversible loss of capacity to interact with the environment); (2) the withdrawal of a life sustaining procedures; and (3) the withdrawal or withholding of any other medical treatment.

In addition, this instrument allows you to appoint an agent to decide on your behalf whether to continue or withdrawal medical treatment. The agent you appoint must follow the directions set forth in the instrument. For example, the appointed agent may follow your direction and allow life-support to be discontinued in the event that you lapse into a “permanent unconsciousness” and are unable to direct the termination of life-support, yourself.

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POWER OF ATTORNEY

This instrument allows you, as a competent individual, to give a power of attorney to an appointed agent to make financial and legally binding decisions on your behalf, in the event that you become disabled and/or incompetent at a later date. If this instrument is executed at a time when you are competent, this delegated power will not be affected by the subsequent onset of a disability or incompetence. This instrument allows for substantial flexibility to allow you to tailor the instrument to your specific intentions.

Although most people believe they do not need this instrument until a later time in their lives, it is important to have this document executed as early as possible. It is impossible to plan for the exact onset of future disabilities and/or incompetence, and this instrument must be executed at a time when you are competent. It simply makes more sense to execute this instrument now to prevent unfortunate situations later in life, when you may be incompetent and unable to appoint someone to make decisions on your behalf.

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