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Immediate or Incapacity Only: Your Financial Power of Attorney

Immediate or Incapacity Only: Your Financial Power of Attorney

by Amy Refeca | Aug 5, 2022 | Advance Directive for Health Care, Estate Planning, Financial Power of Attorney, How We Help Women, Incapacity, Power of Attorney

Is your financial power of attorney immediate or incapacity only? Meaning, can your Agent act on behalf of you in financial transactions as soon as you signed your power of attorney, or, will your Agent ONLY be able to act if something triggers their authority to kick...
4 Things Your Health Care Agent Can Do Under Your Georgia Advance Directive for Health Care

4 Things Your Health Care Agent Can Do Under Your Georgia Advance Directive for Health Care

by Amy Refeca | May 10, 2022 | Advance Directive for Health Care, Estate Planning, Guardianship, Healthcare POA

The four things your health care agent can do under your Georgia Advance Directive for Health Care, sometimes referred to as a health care power of attorney, are: make treatment health care decisions for YOU, access YOUR private and protected health information, make...
Estate Plan: What does that really mean?

Estate Plan: What does that really mean?

by Amy Refeca | Apr 26, 2022 | Estate Planning, Healthcare POA, Last Will & Testament, Trusts

What is an “estate plan” and what happens if you do not have one? An “estate plan” is a set of documents which gives your family the gift of your choice as to what should happen to your money, things and body in the event you are injured, ill and/or pass away.  The...
What is probate?

What is probate?

by Amy Refeca | Jan 27, 2022 | Administration, Estate, Estate Planning, How We Help Women, Insurance, Last Will & Testament, Probate, Trusts

Probate is the court process of taking what a person owned at their death and transferring it to the person or entity entitled to receive it after the person died.  How long does probate take? Who the “entitled person or entity” is to receive money after I...
Does a will go through probate?

Does a will go through probate?

by Amy Refeca | Jan 25, 2022 | Administration, Estate, Estate Planning, How We Help Women, Last Will & Testament, Probate

Yes.  A will goes through probate.  A will does not avoid probate.  Short answer.  Now let’s dig further into what happens if you die with a will. Starting with the premise that a person who is dead cannot own anything.  So one moment you own something, say a...
When You Die Without A Will: Pablo Picasso Died Without One

When You Die Without A Will: Pablo Picasso Died Without One

by Amy Refeca | Oct 18, 2021 | Estate Planning, How We Help Women, Last Will & Testament, News, Trusts

Ever wonder what happens when you die without a will?  Well you don’t need to wonder, you just need to pull up a few headlines in the newspaper to check out what has happened to the wealth of a famous person who died without a will.  That’s right.  If a...
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