Powers of Attorney + Advance Care Directives
Who would you like to manage your financial and medical affairs if you’re unable to? Appointing someone to make decisions about your finances and medical treatment is an essential component of estate planning.
By creating these ‘living documents’ you can ensure that your wishes are respected if you become unable to communicate or make decisions for yourself. Making these documents whilst you’re able to minimises future costs, offers peace of mind, and creates a smoother process for the administration of your affairs.
Why do I need a Power of Attorney or Advance Care Directive?
If you don’t appoint someone to make these decisions for you, the South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (SACAT) will make the decision. It may be that the Public Advocate is appointed to make decisions about your medical treatment or the Public Trustee is appointed to make decisions about your financial affairs, not your family or friends. Even if SACAT appoints your family to be the administrator of your affairs, they must report to the Public Trustee annually.
What is the Varga Lawyers difference?
Our drafting is creative and tailored to your needs.
We can draft Powers of Attorney with flexible options. If you want your loved ones to act jointly, we can draft a condition permitting your Attorneys to make smaller decisions on their own, thereby making the management of your affairs easier. This is helpful if one of your attorneys becomes unavailable.
Our Advance Care Directives are designed to meet the prevailing community standards of health care. We have done the work for you, so you don’t have to. You can select from the wishes we have drafted for you or choose to include your own variant.