Q&A

What is a POA service?

What is a POA service?

When you need someone to handle your finances on your behalf Executing a power of attorney document can permit an agent to act on your behalf in financial matters such as filing taxes, selling property, refinancing a mortgage and depositing or cashing checks.

Can a PoA pay themselves for services and time?

You need to prove that the payments are justified. Make sure your documentation is complete and supports the payments made. You should immediately retain counsel to help you in this matter. Hope this helps.

Do you get paid for a power of attorney?

A power of attorney is not a job, a position or a career. Rather, it describes the relationship between two people. Some powers of attorney include payments or salaries, while others do not. Talk to a lawyer in your state if you need legal advice about how powers of attorney work and your state’s requirements.

Can a health care power of attorney make financial decisions?

Persons can learn more here. A health care power of attorney cannot make financial decisions for the principal, and a financial power of attorney cannot make medical decisions for the principal. The same person can be named both the healthcare power of attorney and the financial power of attorney.

Can a principal be named as an agent of a PoA?

A POA may also give the attorney-in-fact a very broad range of authority. While attorneys and accountants can be named as the agent, it is common for relatives, particularly the adult children, of principals to be fill this role. Creating a POA does not mean the principal no longer is able to make his / her own financial or healthcare decisions.

You need to prove that the payments are justified. Make sure your documentation is complete and supports the payments made. You should immediately retain counsel to help you in this matter. Hope this helps.

A power of attorney is not a job, a position or a career. Rather, it describes the relationship between two people. Some powers of attorney include payments or salaries, while others do not. Talk to a lawyer in your state if you need legal advice about how powers of attorney work and your state’s requirements.

Can a PoA appoint one person to act as an agent?

It is common to appoint one person to act as an agent for both financial and healthcare decisions, but in some cases it may be wise to separate the two. The powers of an appointed agent can be broad or narrow, depending on how the POA document is written.

Can a power of attorney authorize compensation?

In at least one sense, a power of attorney is the opposite of a will — it is only effective while the person who created it is alive. You don’t say whether your parents’ powers of attorney authorize compensation.