Why bother with an EPA?

If you suffer something like a stroke or heart attack, your house and other assets would be frozen while you’re incapacitated – which could, of course, cause significant legal problems.

For example, what if that happened to your partner?

Without an EPA, you wouldn’t be able to sell or mortgage the family home to raise funds, because your partner wouldn’t be able to sign any legal documents like a transfer or mortgage.

You’d have to go through the extra worry of getting a Court order before such documents could be signed and accepted by the Department of Land.

Enduring Powers - Attorney and Guardianship - Perth

older couple considering creating an enduring power of attorney or guardianship from wills at home

You’ve got a Will – great.

BUT a Will only operates from the minute you die.

And people can be incapacitated before death. It may not be something you want to contemplete but, sadly, it does happen.

Enduring Power of Guardianship

You can legally plan how you wish decisions in relation to your health and lifestyle to be made if you become incapacitated.
An Enduring Power of Guardianship (EPG) is a legal document that enables you to appoint a person or persons of your choice to make important personal, lifestyle and health care decisions on your behalf. Your EPG would come into effect only if you lose the capacity to make decisions for yourself.

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Enduring Power of Attorney

You can legally plan how you wish decisions in relation to your financial affairs to be made if you become incapacitated.
An Enduring Power of Attorney (EPA) is a legal document which enables you to appoint a person to manage your financial and bank affairs for when you no longer can, or no longer want to.

The first type of EPA would only come into effect if you decide you want to hand over the managing of your financial affairs to someone else
The second type of EPA would only come into effect if you are certified as no longer able to manage your financial affairs

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