Estate Planning
What is Estate Planning?
Regardless of what drives a client to meet with us, learning a client’s wishes, assets, and studying how each asset is titled, prepares us to provide the best estate planning options. A brief description of general estate planning documents is provided below.
General Estate Planning Documents
Will
Trust
Durable Power of Attorney
Health Care Surrogate
Living Will
Do Not Resuscitate Order
A do not resuscitate (DNR) order is a physician’s order signed by you (or your health care surrogate or proxy) and your doctor. It states you do not want to be resuscitated if you have a respiratory or cardiac arrest. A DNR is typically only signed for a person who is extremely ill or in a persistent vegetative state. Comfort care measures such as oxygen administration, hemorrhage control and pain management, will still be used. Florida’s DNR is a form developed by the Florida Department of Health and must be printed on yellow paper before being signed. A valid Florida DNR that is properly executed does NOT expire.
Here is a link for the Florida Department of Health for more information: http://www.floridahealth.gov/about-the-department-of-health/about-us/patient-rights-and-safety/do-not-resuscitate/index.html
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Swank Elder Law
The firm of Britton G. Swank, P.A. is skilled at providing legal assistance to older adults and people of all ages preparing for the future.
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Fort Myers, Florida 33966
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