Can a person acting under a PoA make gifts or change beneficiary designations?
How to navigate this delicate issue in estate planning
The amendment would have allowed people to spell out the circumstances in which they would want an assisted death.
Your clients may have questions for you about what this means for them.
A Parliamentary report is unclear as to whether a patient's children, an advisor, or someone acting as a PoA would be allowed to witness a request.
A look at British Columbia’s Public Guardian and Trustee
Tell clients to factor in where potential candidates live
Unmarried seniors who’ve never had children will need special attention
Clients should state their views on physician-assisted suicide in their estate planning documents.
While multiple will planning is a familiar strategy to deal with foreign assets on death, preparing multiple powers of attorney for use in jurisdictions where clients spend time and hold assets is less common.