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LIST OF ASSETS AND DEBTS

Making a list of your assets and keeping it in a place known to your executor or other family members is of great help to them when you are not able to share that information with them. List your bank accounts, safe deposit boxes, stocks and bonds, real estate, and other assets. Also list the names and addresses of anyone to whom you owe money.

DURABLE POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

In this document, you appoint another individual (the "attorney-in-fact") to make property management decisions on your behalf if you are incapacitated. The attorney-in-fact manages your assets and must do so in a prudent manner accountable to you and solely in your best interests.

DURABLE POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR HEALTH CARE

This document allows the person named as attorney-in-fact to make health care decisions for you when you can no longer make them for yourself. It may also contain statements of wishes concerning such matters as life sustaining treatment and other health care issues, and instructions concerning organ donation, disposition of remains and your funeral.

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