A living will is used to record your preferences with regard to the utilization of life-sustaining measures like feeding tubes, artificial hydration, and mechanical respiration. Another advance directive that is recommended is the durable power of attorney for health care or health care proxy. Every possible medical contingency will not be covered in the living will. To account for this, you can name someone to make medical decisions on your behalf through the execution of a durable power of attorney for health care.
Topics covered in this report include:
- Will or Trust
- Advance Directives for Health Care
- Financial Representative
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Paul Kraft is Co-Founder and the senior Principal of Frank & Kraft, one of the leading law firms in Indiana in the area of estate planning as well as business and tax planning.
Mr. Kraft assists clients primarily in the areas of estate planning and administration, Medicaid planning, federal and state taxation, real estate and corporate law, bringing the added perspective of an accounting background to his work.
Mr. Kraft assists clients primarily in the areas of estate planning and administration, Medicaid planning, federal and state taxation, real estate and corporate law, bringing the added perspective of an accounting background to his work.
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