Powers of Attorney

Powers of Attorney are very important documents which appoint a person or people to make decisions on your behalf during your lifetime, if you are unable to do so, on your own behalf.

1. An Enduring Power of Attorney (Financial and Personal) endures after you lose capacity. It enables your Attorney to manage your finances and decide where you live if you are unable to make these decisions for yourself. You can have more than one Attorney acting jointly or severally or by a majority if there are more than two.  
2. A General Power of Attorney is made for specific transactions or circumstances. This Power will cease to have affect when you lose capacity to make your own decisions;
3. A Company Power of Attorney will nominate who is to replace you as a Director if you lose the capacity to make decisions for the running a Company.
4. An Appointment of Medical Treatment Decision Maker appoints the people who will make medical decisions for you, if you are unable to make these decisions for yourself – there is also the possibility of making an Advance Care Directive which will direct your Attorney and your doctors as to what you would like to be done, if you are unable to tell them.