Queensland Medical Power of Attorney - build online. Doctors are not gods.

QLD Medical Power of Attorney

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 QLD Medical POA. See a Sample here.

Wife trapped in a retirement home?

Our client's wife was trapped in a high-end retirement home. She had 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 QLD Medical POA. He got it. He took it to the Retirement Home and he got his wife out.

Escape a bad hospital

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

What can a QLD Medical POA do?

The Queensland Enduring Medical Power of Attorney allows you to appoint loved ones. If you lose mental capacity then they decide your:

• personal lifestyle
• where you live
• medical treatment
• Qld health care decisions

But only if you can't make decisions yourself.

A QLD Medical Power of Attorney is also called a:

• QLD Enduring Power of Guardianship
• Queensland Enduring Guardianship
• Queensland Medical Enduring Power of Attorney

What decisions can a Queensland enduring guardian make?

A QLD 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'

Free and ongoing advice for QLD Medical lifestyle POAs

The advantages of having our law firm prepare your QLD Medical Lifestyle POA:

• Included in the cost of your POA is free advice for your attorney. They are not alone. Our law firm, forever and as often as needed, helps your attorneys and shows them how to use the POA. We give you and your family ongoing support.
• If you lose mental capacity, your Attorneys are welcome to telephone us for help and assurance. There is no additional cost.
• Over 30% of POAs prepared on the so-called 'free' government website are incorrect. Sadly, it is only after they are needed that this becomes apparent.
• There is extensive information on how to use the QLD Enuding POA that comes with the EPA.
• Finally, there are unlimited updates on the Queensland POA. The POA can be updated as often as you wish for free. This is while you have mental capacity.

Medical POAs and Financial Matters POAs – look identical

In Queensland, you can put both the ‘personal/health’ and ‘financial’ POA in the same document. Only one tick is all that is required. However, do not do this.

It is legally better to have a separate Medical POA and a separate Financial POA. This is because:

• There is ambiguity in the legislation as to whether you can have two QLD POAs. However, there is no ambiguity as to having one for medical purposes and another for financial purposes.
• When a doctor or nursing home reads your QLD Medical POA, there is no reason for them to know who holds your financial POA. Privacy and information are protected.
• Similarly, when you hand over a QLD POA dealing with only ‘financial matters’ to a government department, they do not find out who holds your QLD Medical POA.
• Finally, there have been occasions where a nursing home has seen fit to keep the original QLD Medical POA. Sometimes, as well as refusing to hand it back, it has been lost. Because you have two POAs, you have kept the financial POA out of
  the clutches of the nursing home and medical facility.

If the person witnessing your POA has a different view, they can telephone the law firm: 07 2111 0869.

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

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includes 3-Generation Testamentary Trust Wills and 4 POAs

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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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