Unless you handle estate planning and elder law issues every day, it can be confusing about what person or document you need to handle your legal and financial affairs, if you cannot handle them yourself due to sickness, death or absence. Let’s start for everyone over 18, the age of majority. Assuming that person is competent, it is wise to have one or more trusted persons named in a power of attorney to handle financial affairs in case of incapacity. That person used to be called an “attorney in fact”, which was confusing, so about five years ago the power of attorney law in Connecticut changed the designation to “agent”..
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