Welcome to Trust – Estate Planning for New Families. I’m Tara, the owner of Trust, and we’re really briefly going to cover one of the most common estate planning documents out there. Those are your powers of attorney. Almost everyone has heard the expression powers of attorney, but what exactly does that mean? There’s two basic types. The first is a power of attorney for property. A power of attorney for property allows you to name an agent to make financial decisions for you if you are alive but incapacitated and unable to do so. Similarly, a power of attorney for healthcare allows you to name an agent to make healthcare decisions for you if you are alive but incapacitated and unable to do so. A power of attorney for healthcare also includes really important information regarding end-of-life decision-making language or terminating life support language. Your powers of attorney are simple documents but a really important part of your estate plan and part of what we work through at Trust.