A “Living Will” is a document that allows you to legally set forth your health care wishes. In a comprehensive estate plan it is commonly included as a part of a “Advance Health Care Directive”.
A “Living Will” is a document that allows you to legally set forth your health care wishes. In a comprehensive estate plan it is commonly included as a part of a “Advance Health Care Directive”.
A Personal Representative in a probate (an “Executor or Executrix” if the person was named in the decedent’s Will, or an “Administrator” if not named or no Will existed) is the individual appointed by the Probate Court to faithfully administer a decedent’s estate for the benefit of the decedent’s creditors and beneficiaries. Failure to perform his/her duties faithfully could be cause for removal
When a California resident dies without a Will, he/she has died “intestate”. This is a legal term meaning the person died without documenting his/her wishes for distribution of his/her estate.
A California Financial Power of Attorney (“POA”) is a document that gives a third party (your “Agent”) the legal authority to make certain financial decisions on your (the “Principal’s”) behalf.
Advance Health Care Directives are documents that grants to specifically-named and trusted “health care” agents the authority to make health care decisions for an individual in the event of such individual’s incapacity.
