Advance Care Directives
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THE ESSENTIAL FLORIDA ADVANCE CARE DIRECTIVES?
Powers of Attorney (POA);
Healthcare Surrogate;
Living Wills;
HIPAA Authorizations; and
More …
In Florida, Advance Care Directives (“ACD”) are legal healthcare related documents that allow YOU to plan and make decisions in the event you are no longer able to make decisions for yourself.
Estate Planning Attorneys use these essential estate planning documents as a way to designate individuals to make decisions for you if you become incapacitate or to carry out certain decisions you made in advance if you are facing end-of-life situation.
Preparing ACDs give you a way, before anything happens, to clearly tell your wishes to family, friends, and health care professionals.
It is important for you to know that while you are awake and alert, YOU have the right to override all of your Advance Care Directives.
WHY DO I NEED A TALLAHASSEE ESTATE PLANNING ATTORNEY?
Estate Planning Attorneys like the Attorney Conticello have specialized training and real world experience dealing with Estates. We know what needs to go in and out of your Advance Care Directives, based upon our experience and conversations with our clients. As Estate planning professionals, we draft these documents and customize them to your needs.
If you want peace of mind, don’t leave your fate, or a family member’s fate to relying upon a $100 form you get off of a google search with blanks for you to fill in your personal information.
Hire the Conticello Law Firm Today.
We are your Tallahassee Estate Planning Attorney.
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ADVANCE CARE DIRECTIVES – FLORIDA LEGAL DOCUMENTS FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS
Conticello Law Firm is here draft legal documents for your college students and young adults, before and after they leave home, or if they never left!
The magic age of 18!!! It is when our kids relationship change even if we don’t want it to. They take over responsibility for their actions and parents step back. While we may still support them financially and emotionally, and they may live in our house, the law states our kids have autonomy over themselves.
Don’t worry all you Mama Bears, Papa Bears, and helicopter parents, the Conticello Law Firm has got you and your Young Adult (kids) covered!!! This package is good for your adult children & college-bound kids. Don’t let them leave home without it.
WHY ARE THEY NEEDED?
- YOUR 18 YEAR-OLD IS IN A CAR CRASH.
- YOUR 18 YEAR-OLD IS IN THE HOSPITAL.
- YOUR 18 YEAR-OLD BROKE A BONE AND NEEDS MEDICAL CARE.
- YOUR 18 YEAR OLD NEEDS FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE NOW.
- YOU NEED SOME STUDENT INFORMATION OR TO TALK WITH THEIR COLLEGE.
- THEY ARE AT THE BANK AND YOU NEED TO HELP THEM.
- THEY NEED YOUR HELP INTERACTING WITH A THIRD PARTY
- YOU ARE IN A DIFFERENT STATE
- YOU ARE HOURS AWAY
- THEY NEED YOUR HELP IMMEDIATELY
- And the List goes on.
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The Conticello Law Firm offers a special Advance Care Directives legal package geared for our young adult and college-bound children. The package includes the following Florida legal forms:
- Healthcare Surrogates
- Living Wills
- FERPA Parent Authorization; and
- HIPAA Waivers
We also offer Young Adult and College focused Power of Attorneys, which give parents greater flexibility to assist them.
CLICK HERE FOR INFORMATION ON OUR YOUNG ADULT & COLLEGE-BOUND KIDS LEGAL DOCUMENTS PAGE
EXPLANATION OF DIFFERENT ADVANCE CARE DIRECTIVES
POWER OF ATTORNEY / DURABLE POWER OF ATTORNEY
A Power of attorney (POA), can be referred to as either general and durable. Today the majority of them are often referred to as Durable Power of Attorney (DPOA), because they remain in effect when the grantor is incapacitated. They are among the most important Advance Care Directives and should be included in almost every estate plan.
Whatever they are actually called, the reason Estate Planning lawyers use them is to legally authorize someone, or an entity, to act on our client’s behalf, when they lack capacity or have some type of other impairment issues.
The POA and corresponding powers take effect upon execution and expire when the Grantor dies. Florida no longer allows what are known as “springing” POA’s which only take effect upon a certain condition.
What powers a POA grants is individual to the actual document. Some powers are so special that they require the grantor to initial besides them indicating approval. Generally POA’s include powers such as:
- Buying and selling property;
- Managing bank accounts;
- Paying bills, and investments;
- Handling Contractual Relationships;
- Filing tax returns;
- Applying for government benefits; and
- More …
Without a POA or Trust in effect, if you become incapacitated, your family will have to go to court and have you declared incompetent before they can take care of your finances for you.
Tallahassee Estate Planning Attorney uses specialized Elder Law DPOA’s for clients who have, or are anticipated might have, Elder law needs. These DPOA’s grant extensive rights not normally found in general DPOA’s.
HEALTHCARE SURROGATES
A Healthcare Surrogate is a legal document you fill out and designate a person or people to make healthcare decisions for you if you are incapacitated. The form will allow your surrogate to interact with the medical staff without restrictions. In some states they are known as Healthcare Proxies. You should pick someone you trust and believe will be able to make decisions that could affect whether you live or die. While many people pick a spouse, child, or other trusted family member, that is not required.
HIPAA RELEASE
A HIPAA RELEASE is used in conjunction with a Healthcare Surrogate, a HIPPA Release is document that you sign to allow the people designated in your Healthcare Surrogate to have access to your medical records. The form can designate the type of medical information and records to be shared.
LIVING WILL
A Living Will (not a regular will) is document where you get to designate in advance certain health care decisions in the event you are in a persistent vegetative state or if you are in an end-of-life care. You can make decisions including, whether you want certain life sustaining or prolonging procedures or care to be performed or withheld, such as ventilators, dialysis, tube feeding, and other end-of-life care.
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If you need to draft or amend any of the foregoing Advance Care Directives and estate planning documents, contact estate planning attorney Anthony Conticello by calling (850) 888-2529, completing our Contact Us form, or emailing us at [email protected].
We accept clients throughout the state of Florida.
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