Are you a business owner? Are you a solo parent? If you’re either of these, or you’re any responsible adult, you should have a Power of Attorney. It’s that simple.
A Power of Attorney (technically called a Mandate under Louisiana law) is a legal document that authorizes someone to act as your Agent and to make financial, medical, or other decisions on your behalf. Powers of Attorney are Gumby-level flexible in terms of the person or people who act as your Agent, the extent of the Agent’s authority, and the conditions under which the Agent can make decisions.
Powers of Attorney are particularly useful in medical emergencies. Say you had a bad car wreck and your injuries were bad enough that you had to be put into a coma for a couple weeks. Think that’s fanciful? It happens. More than you think. What would happen to your child who’s counting on you? What would happen to your business? If you had a Power of Attorney, you’d have an answer to those questions.
You know better than anyone else in the world who would be best suited to make the important decisions for you if for some reason you could not make them. You know better than anyone else in the world who could best bear the emotional toll of a life or death decision for you if one had to be made.
You have the right to control those decisions. Why would you not want to exercise that right?
We can help you put an affordable Power of Attorney in place that will give you peace of mind knowing that you’ve done your part to protect the people you are responsible for in the event that an emergency happened.