Why Creating an Advance Health Care Directive is the Ultimate Act of Love Imagine this: you’re sitting in your favorite chair, sipping tea, and thinking about the future. Not the big things like the next family vacation or your career goals, but the quieter, more delicate parts of life—your health,…
What documents have taken on more immediate importance as the pandemic continues? Here is a list of documents to seriously consider dealing with immediately: Advance Health Care Directive — This document names someone to make health care decisions for you. You can describe your preferences for end-of-life care. Last Will…
Legal Documents Every College-Age Student Needs As a parent, you lose the ability to make decisions on your child’s behalf when he or she turns 18. You no longer have the right to make medical decisions or speak with their doctors. If you would still like to have the ability…
It’s helpful if you can let your doctors know in advance what you want to happen if you can’t speak for yourself. An Advance Health Care Directive lays out who you want to speak for you and what kind of treatments you want. In this way, you are prepared before health care decisions need to be made.
In your thirties, you might still be paying off student loans, and you may think you don’t need to start planning your estate. However, if you don’t have many assets, it may be even more important to plan to make sure what you do have goes where you’d like it…
