
Your Living Will: What Can and Cannot Be Included
If you are seriously injured in an accident or have a medical crisis where you are unconscious and not able to speak for yourself, a Living Will lets you spell out what type of treatment
If you are seriously injured in an accident or have a medical crisis where you are unconscious and not able to speak for yourself, a Living Will lets you spell out what type of treatment
Creating an estate plan can be daunting. There is so much to consider: taking stock of your assets, deciding who inherits what, choosing responsible people to carry out your wishes. But it doesn’t have to
A Health Care Proxy and a Living Will allow you to control your medical care wishes in the event you cannot communicate them, yourself. While both legally-binding documents carry out your health care decisions, they
If you are involved in a serious accident or suffer a catastrophic medical crisis where you cannot convey your treatment wishes, doctors will perform life sustaining procedures – even those you may not want. If
Most people know about Living Wills or Health Care Proxies and that they deal with conveying one’s decisions for physical medical treatments. Did you know there is a legal document for a person to express
Most everyone knows about Wills and Trusts – two distinct estate planning documents. When it comes to a Living Will and a Living Trust, however, their functions may be blurred. These also serve particular roles:
Since they share similar names, there is often confusion about the difference between a Will and a Living Will. They are both important estate planning documents but they serve two quite different purposes. A Will
It’s easy to get caught up in the day to day. After all, we spend our entire lives caring for the people we love. And, when it comes to family planning, we want to make
If something happens to you that inhibits your ability to make decisions for yourself and your health care, how will doctors and health care workers know your wishes? This is when an important estate planning
As we come to the end of 2020 and approach the new year, it is an opportunity to reflect on our current estate plan and consider what changes (if any) we need to make, to
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