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SENIOR RESOURCES
It's not too late to do
BASIC ESTATE
planning
…Until It Is by Lee Franks
ost estate planning financial and medical powers of utility until you die, but a financial
attorneys have a list attorney, a HIPAA release, and a power of attorney becomes critical
of important planning directive.” Medical providers, first when the medical emergency turns
Mpapers that they responders, and family find the into a long-term care situation.
would tell you to get done at the last three particularly important To my shame, I must admit that
earliest opportunity, starting at age during medical emergencies, I had been an attorney for eight
eighteen. I would tell you, “At the which, by their nature, usually years when I confronted my own
very least, you should have a will, are unplanned. A will has little medical emergency, and I still had
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