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One's choice of estate trustee, attorney for property and attorney for personal care is an important one.

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One's choice of estate trustee, attorney for property and attorney for personal care is an important one. An estate trustee faces the responsibility of administering your estate in accordance with your Will(s) following your passing, thus being the one carrying out your wishes when you are no longer around to do so. An attorney for property named in a Continuing Power of Attorney for Property is generally given broad powers1 to do anything with your property that you can do, except make or change your Will(s). An attorney for personal care is given the power to make personal care and treatment decisions for you when you are incapable of making them yourself. Given the responsibility faced by each person acting in any of these roles, an individual executing a Will, Continuing Power of Attorney for Property and/or Power of Attorney for Personal Care must give thought to who they name; and they must trust each such person's ability to carry out his or her responsibilities.

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