Home Visiting Lawyer for Wills, Powers of Attorney . . .
Neufeld Legal | Calgary, Alberta wills and estate planning lawyer, advising clients in developing and implementing their personal succession plans.
Contact Neufeld Legal PC at 403-400-4092 or Chris@NeufeldLegal.com
When you or a loved one is confined to their home, a hospice or a seniors home, and is unable to travel, it is nevertheless important that you ensure that the estate planning documentation is in order, including your own (or your loved one’s) last will & testament, powers of attorney, personal directives, etc.
Unfortunately, far too many people have wills and other estate planning documents that are out-of-date, contrary to their current intentions, or have never been prepared or signed, and because the feel trapped in their own home (or a hospice or senior citizens home), they fail to take appropriate action to correct and/or update those estate planning documents.
Meanwhile, people named in the documents pass away, move away or are no longer close to yourself, such that they might not be capable of serving as your executor or personal representative / personal attorney, or the distribution of your estate needs to modified, including adding and/or deleting beneficiaries.
In those circumstances, you cannot wait any longer in getting the estate planning documents in full legal order, from the last will & testament to a power of attorney for property and finance and a personal directive for health.
Since if you (or your loved one) become incapacitated, or worse yet pass away, your true intentions will not be known, such that you might have the wrong people authorized to perform important functions and your estate might not be properly distributed [more on legal capacity].
These are serious concerns, which complicates the situation and tends to create many unwanted results; while having things done correctly will give you the peace of mind so as to eliminate this unnecessary distraction and focus on your personal health.
For this particular reason, we undertake in-home visits to allow you to attain up-to-date estate planning documents, from your last will & testament to a power of attorney for property and finance and a personal directive for health [more on significance of in-home visits].
These are matters that need to be addressed promptly, especially when you or a loved one is largely incapable of leaving your own home (or hospice or seniors home), as this is one aspect that should be done as soon as possible, as opposed to putting it off unnecessarily.
At the same time, because of the perception associated with creating or modifying a will when largely confined to one's home, or otherwise under a perceived infirmity, especially when the distribution of one’s estate is intentionally inequitable, it is all the more important that it is undertaken with a lawyer and rigorously conducted to accord with strict legal precedent.
If you or a loved one requires a home visiting lawyer to attend to a last will & testament, power of attorney, personal directive, trust or other estate planning document, contact our law firm at 403-400-4092 or Chris@NeufeldLegal.com to schedule an appointment.
* Please note that travel time and attending at one's home (or at a hospice or seniors home) will incur additional cost and expense as compared to comparable legal work on wills, trusts, personal directives and powers of attorney. Click here for more information about home appointments.
