Estate Planning

Proper Estate Planning enables you to:

Designate who handles your financial affairs
Designate who makes medical decisions for yourself;
Express your wish concerning sustaining your life by artificial means;
Pass your assets to the people or organizations you wish to benefit after your death;
Nominate Guardian(s) for your minor children and yourself;
Minimize estate taxes.

Estate Planning involves the use of several or all of the following documents:

Durable General Powers of Attorney;
Durable Powers of Attorney for Health Care;
Living Will;
Nomination of Guardian;
Wills;
Trusts.

In addition to using wills and trusts, there are several ways in which you may pass property to

a designated beneficiary, including:

Lifetime gifts;
Joint accounts;
In trust for, payable on death, or transfer on death accounts;
Beneficiary designations;
Life estates.

Brief Durable Power of Attorney Checklist (PDF)

Selecting Your Durable Power of Attorney (PDF)

Follow this link for Making Medical Decisions for Someone Else - A NH Handbook http://www.nhbar.org/uploads/pdf/MedicalDecisionsHandbook.pdf