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Are Your Advance Directives in Place?

December 13, 2015 by Barry D. Horowitz, Estate Planning Attorney

Are Your Advance Directives in Place?Incapacity planning is part of the equation if you want to be comprehensively prepared for the eventualities of aging. Many people become unable to communicate medical decisions at the end of their lives, and you can account for this through the creation of legal documents called advance directives for health care.

Life Support

During our modern era, medical professionals can sometimes use artificial life-sustaining measures to keep terminal patients alive for indefinite periods of time. Exactly how you would want doctors to proceed under these circumstances is a personal matter. Some people would rather let nature take its course under these circumstances.

You can state your preferences with regard to the utilization of life-sustaining measures in no uncertain terms if you create a living will. Once this document has been properly executed, everyone in your family will know your true wishes, and doctors would be legally compelled to follow your instructions.

Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care

The living will is one of two advance directives for health care that should be part of your incapacity plan. A durable power of attorney for health care or health care proxy is the other one.

A living will is going to address the specific issue of the utilization of life-support. There could be other types of medical scenarios that could come about while you are unable to communicate your choices in real time. To account for this, you can empower someone to make medical decisions on your behalf through the execution of a durable power of attorney for health care.

We should point out the fact that your incapacity plan could also include a durable financial power of attorney that names someone to handle your finances if you become incapacitated at some point in time.

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Barry D. Horowitz, Estate Planning Attorney
Barry D. Horowitz, Estate Planning Attorney
Founding Partner and President at Nirenstein, Horowitz & Associates PC
Barry D. Horowitz is a founding partner and president of the law firm of Nirenstein, Horowitz & Associates, P.C. He received his diploma from the Loomis Chaffee School and his Bachelor of Arts from Bennington College, where he dual majored in philosophy and music.

Mr. Horowitz was awarded his Juris Doctor degree with honors from the University of Connecticut School of Law. While attending law school, Mr. Horowitz received the American Jurisprudence Award in Legal Ethics and the Nathan Burkan Award.

After graduation from law school, Mr. Horowitz continued his legal education at New York University School of Law where he received a Post Doctorate Law Degree in Taxation. He has also recently received a national achievement award.

Mr. Horowitz is admitted to practice before all the state courts in the State of Connecticut and the United States District Court.

Mr. Horowitz was selected for Super Lawyers in 2021.
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