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You could create a specific power of attorney. This would give your son the authority to act for you but only for the purpose you have specified. This kind of power of attorney ends once the specified purpose is completed.
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You could create a non-enduring power of attorney. This kind of power attorney ends when you no longer have the capacity to make your own decisions. Your daughter could handle your affairs as long as you had the capacity to act for yourself. Legal capacity has nothing to do with whether you are physically capable of doing things for yourself. It means whether you can understand the information you need to make decisions and to be able to appreciate the consequences of the decision.
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You could create an enduring power of attorney. Under any power of attorney, you can still act for yourself as long as you have the capacity to do so. An enduring power of attorney continues if you later lose capacity. A non-enduring power of attorney does not.
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You could create a contingent enduring power of attorney that only comes into effect if you lose capacity. Determining whether you have lost capacity can be done by one or more individuals chosen by you and named in your contingent enduring power of attorney. Those with the authority to make this decision cannot be the attorney or a member of the attorney’s family. If no one is named by you, or whoever you named cannot make the decision, the opinions of two professionals, such as a doctor, registered nurse or social worker, are required.
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