What documents have taken on more immediate importance as the pandemic continues? Here is a list of documents to seriously consider dealing with immediately:
- Advance Health Care Directive — This document names someone to make health care decisions for you. You can describe your preferences for end-of-life care.
- Last Will and Testament — This document names an executor to take charge of your estate if something happens to you, a guardian for your minor children, if necessary, and describes how to divide up your assets.
- Financial Power of Attorney — This document gives someone legal authority to manage your financial and property affairs while you’re still living. This may be particularly useful if you’re stuck somewhere — in quarantine or the hospital — and need someone to pay your bills, file your taxes, hold your mail or do any of the tasks that keep your life running. Choose someone you trust completely, such as a spouse, sibling or best friend.
The hardest part about implementing these three documents will be signing them in a legally valid way.
One socially distant technique that Maxey | Kaminski has been utilizing is meeting with clients in the firm’s parking lot so everyone can see clients sign the documents through the windows of their car. For health reasons, Maxey I Kaminski uses sanitized pens.
The current health crisis reminds us that life is fragile and unpredictable. The pandemic turned our lives upside down in a matter of weeks. With so much uncertainty, knowing your plans are in place and that your loved ones are provided for can be comforting.
Attorney Kristin Kaminski can guide you through the process in a relatively short time to make sure that what you really want is being conveyed in the documents.
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