Northern Territory - Lifestyle/Medical - Advance Personal Plan

NT Medical POA - Enduring Power of Guardianship

Who looks after you, when you can't? The government, retirement home or doctors? Should they control your body? Do you trust your family more? If so make a NT Medical POA. See a Sample here.

Wife trapped in a retirement home?

Our client's wife was trapped in a high-end aged care facility. She got Alzheimer's Disease. Our client wanted to get her out. The retirement home said he had no right to touch or move a person. Not even a wife. He rang me in tears. I told him to go home and get the NT Medical Power of Attorney. He got it. He took it to the Retirement Home and he got his wife out.

Escape a bad hospital with an Enduring Power of Guardianship

Our client's wife was in a hospital. The doctors were 'behaving like Gods, not doctors'. Our client presented the NT Medical Power of Attorney. And he moved her to another hospital. There was nothing the doctors could do.

What can an Enduring Power of Guardianship do?

The Northern Territory Medical POA allows you to appoint loved ones. If you lose mental capacity then they decide your:

• personal lifestyle
• where you live
• medical treatment

But only if you can't make decisions yourself.

A Northern Territory Medical POA is also called:

• NT Enduring Power of Guardianship
• NT Power of Guardianship
• NT Enduring Guardianship
• NT Medical Enduring POA

What decisions can a Northern Territory enduring guardian make?

With an NT Enduring Power of Guardianship, the enduring guardian makes decisions about:

1. where you live, whether permanently or temporarily
2. who you will live with
3. whether you work
4. consent to medical & dental treatment
5. protect life or 'flick the switch when a vegetable'

Protects from death duties, divorcing and bankrupt children and a 32% tax on super. Build online with free lifetime updates:

Couples Bundle

includes 3-Generation Testamentary Trust Wills and 4 POAs

Singles Bundle

includes 3-Generation Testamentary Trust Will and 2 POAs

 

Death Taxes

• Australia's four death duties
• 32% tax on superannuation to children
• Selling a dead person's home tax-free
• HECs debt at death
• CGT on dead wife’s wedding ring
• Extra tax on Charities

Vulnerable children and spend-thrifts

• Your Will includes:
  • Divorce Protection Trust if children divorce
  • Bankruptcy Trusts
  • Special Disability Trust (free vulnerable children in Wills Training Video)
  • Guardians for under 18-year-old children
  • Considered person clause to stop Will challenges

Second Marriages & Challenging Will

• Contractual Will Agreement for second marriages
• Wills for blended families
• Do Marriages and Divorce revoke my Will?
• Can my lover challenge my Will?
• Make my Will fair: hotchpot clauses v Equalisation?

What if I:

• have assets or beneficiaries overseas?
• lack mental capacity to sign my Will?
• sign my Will in hospital or isolating?
• lose my Will or my home burns down?
• have addresses changed in my Will?
• have nicknames and alias names?
• want free storage of my Wills and POAs?
• put Specific Gifts in Wills
• build my parent's Wills?
• leave money to my pets?
• want my adviser or accountant to build the Will for me?

Assets not in your Will

• Joint tenancy assets and the family home
• Loans to children, parents or company 
• Gifts and forgiving a debt before you die
• Who controls my Company at death?
• Family Trusts:
  • Changing control with Backup Appointors
  • losing Centrelink and winding up Family Trust
  • Does my Family Trust go in my Will?

Power of Attorney

1. Money POAs: NSW, VIC,  QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT & NT
   • be used to steal my money?
   • act as trustee of my trust?
   • change my Superannuation binding nomination?
   • be witnessed by my financial planner witness?
   • be signed if I lack mental capacity?
2. Medical, Lifestyle, Guardianships, and Care Directives:
   • NSW, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT & NT
   • VIC Appointing Medical Treatment Decision Maker
3. Company POA when directors go missing, insane or die

After death

• Free Wish List to be kept with your Will
• Burial arrangements
• How to amend a Testamentary Trust after you die
• What happens to mortgages when I die?
• Family Court looks at dead Dad's Will

   

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