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Preparation for your passing presents a long list of questions. What legal action will you take to ensure the quality of your final days, to guarantee that your funeral wishes are honored, and to provide for your loved ones after you are gone?

• What will happen if you become too ill to care for yourself?
• Who will inherit your property?
• Who will take care of your affairs after your death?

Why You Need to Plan Ahead:

As you preplan, there are issues you should discuss with your legal counsel:

• Advance Health Care Directives
• Power of Attorney
• Wills
• Probate
• Medicaid

If you don't preplan, the consequences may be worse than you'd expect. Unless you have granted your permission, a designated loved one—even a spouse—cannot just step in and make decisions for you. Family members may argue about your care or about your assets; and as they get into heated exchanges, a stranger will determine your care while the government gleefully walks away with the bulk of your savings.

Ahead Of Your Time will help you plan and process the important issues you need to understand.  The book contains a valuable glossary to help you prepare for your meeting with your attorney. The glossary defines words such as the following:

• Living Will
• Power Of Attorney
• Last Will and Testament
• Probate
• Medicaid
• Hospice

Our legal database will help you find an attorney in your area who will help you with your preplanning.

FYI:  Requirements concerning advance health care directives and living wills fluctuate constantly and differ from state to state—it's important to check changes in the law against the document you have prepared about every two years.

In Ahead Of Your Time you will find out how to register your living will online. This will allow a healthcare provider to access it 24 hours a day, seven days a week.  Make sure you let your family and friends and your doctor know that you have filed.

DID YOU KNOW: A power of attorney and executive aren't always the same. My father-in-law has one of his sons as the power of attorney and his lawyer as the executive.

A power of attorney grants a person the legal authority to act on another person's behalf concerning legal and business issues while they are alive.

An executive is someone designated in a will or assigned by the court, who is the executor of an estate. He is also called a personal representative, and he carries out the instructions put forth in a will.

We are in the process of building a comprehensive end-of-life planning database. Check back soon or e-mail us for details.