The documents that act
when you cannot.
A Florida durable power of attorney names who handles your financial affairs if you are incapacitated. A health care surrogate and living will name who directs your medical care, and on what instructions. A guardianship designation names who raises your minor children. Without them, those decisions can end up in a guardianship court, or with people you never chose.
What each document does
- Durable power of attorney — Florida requires specific, enumerated powers; a generic form that skips them fails precisely when it is needed. The firm drafts the powers your situation actually calls for.
- Health care surrogate — who speaks to doctors and consents to treatment on your behalf.
- Living will — your own instructions on end-of-life care, so the surrogate carries your decision, not the burden of making one.
- HIPAA authorization — without it, the people you named can be refused your medical information.
- Guardianship designation for minor children — who steps in, immediately and long-term, if both parents cannot.
How these documents are delivered
These five documents are the incapacity core of every plan the firm prepares, and they are delivered together as part of the Will Plan — each with a plain-English reasoning memo, a signing packet prepared for Florida's execution formalities, and an organized client folder.
Homeowners and families building around a revocable trust receive the same incapacity documents inside the Trust Plan.