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In Missouri, an advance directive is a legal document that allows individuals to make their healthcare wishes known in advance, should they become unable to make decisions for themselves. It essentially outlines preferences for medical treatment and names a healthcare agent to make decisions on the individual's behalf when they are incapacitated.
Here's a more detailed explanation:
What is an Advance Directive?
Probate & Wills
What is a Revocable Living Trust?
Joint Tenancy
Living Wills and Other Advance Directives
Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care
Revised Anatomical Gift Act
Guardians & Conservators Under Missouri Law
Click here to download the guide.
The Missouri Bar has published a podcast, entitled "Is It Legal to...Estate Planning. Click here to listen to the podcast.
If you click on this link you will be leaving this website.
What is A Revocable Trust?
A trust is an agreement that determines how a person’s property is to be managed and distributed during his or her lifetime and also upon death.
A revocable living trust normally involves three parties:
The Settlor – Also called grantor or trustor, this is the person who creates the trust, and usually the only person who provides funding for the trust. More than one person can be a settlor of a trust, such as when a husband and wife join together to create a family trust.
What is an “Anatomical Gift”?
An “anatomical gift” is a donation of all or part of a human body, after death, for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education. You may also donate some of your organs or tissue while you are alive by making arrangements with certain medical providers; however, that process is not covered in the anatomical gift law.
Can I Be a Donor?
What Is a Will?
A will is a legal paper that states who receives your property when you die. Each state has its own laws about wills.
A will does not avoid the necessity of probate and must be “probated” to have legal effect. You may title your property in other ways so that probate is not necessary.
Who Can Make a Will?
Any person who is at least 18 years old and of sound mind can make a will.
Decedent’s Probate
This article provide a description of probate procedures to transfer property when a person dies. “Probate” is a court-supervised process of transferring legal title from a person who has died (the “decedent”) to the person’s distributees. Probate is necessary to protect the rights to the probate estate of a decedent’s heirs, devisees, and creditors. An orderly transfer of property is done after estate property and debts are administered.
We have added a handbook from The Missouri Bar, entitled, "Family Law Resource Guide.” Within the handbook is a chapter, “Assistance to Parents of Children with Disabilities.” This chapter provides numerous resources that may assist a parent with a disabled child or children.
To open the file, click on the link below.
What is a “Durable” Power of Attorney?
Many people are unaware that an ordinary power of attorney is revoked, and the agent’s power to act for the principal automatically stops, if the principal becomes incapacitated.
Under Missouri law, and the law of many other states, a power of attorney with proper wording may be made “durable.” This means that the power of the agent to act on the principal’s behalf continues despite the principal’s incapacity, whether or not a court decrees the principal to be incapacitated.
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Related Articles
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In Missouri, an advance directive is a legal document that allows individuals to make their healthcare wishes known in advance, should they become unable to make decisions for themselves. It essentially outlines preferences for medical treatment and names a healthcare agent to make decisions on the individual's behalf when they are incapacitated.
Here's a more detailed explanation:
What is an Advance Directive?
Probate & Wills
What is a Revocable Living Trust?
Joint Tenancy
Living Wills and Other Advance Directives
Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care
Revised Anatomical Gift Act
Guardians & Conservators Under Missouri Law
Click here to download the guide.
The Missouri Bar has published a podcast, entitled "Is It Legal to...Estate Planning. Click here to listen to the podcast.
If you click on this link you will be leaving this website.
What is A Revocable Trust?
A trust is an agreement that determines how a person’s property is to be managed and distributed during his or her lifetime and also upon death.
A revocable living trust normally involves three parties:
The Settlor – Also called grantor or trustor, this is the person who creates the trust, and usually the only person who provides funding for the trust. More than one person can be a settlor of a trust, such as when a husband and wife join together to create a family trust.
What is an “Anatomical Gift”?
An “anatomical gift” is a donation of all or part of a human body, after death, for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education. You may also donate some of your organs or tissue while you are alive by making arrangements with certain medical providers; however, that process is not covered in the anatomical gift law.
Can I Be a Donor?
What Is a Will?
A will is a legal paper that states who receives your property when you die. Each state has its own laws about wills.
A will does not avoid the necessity of probate and must be “probated” to have legal effect. You may title your property in other ways so that probate is not necessary.
Who Can Make a Will?
Any person who is at least 18 years old and of sound mind can make a will.
Decedent’s Probate
This article provide a description of probate procedures to transfer property when a person dies. “Probate” is a court-supervised process of transferring legal title from a person who has died (the “decedent”) to the person’s distributees. Probate is necessary to protect the rights to the probate estate of a decedent’s heirs, devisees, and creditors. An orderly transfer of property is done after estate property and debts are administered.
We have added a handbook from The Missouri Bar, entitled, "Family Law Resource Guide.” Within the handbook is a chapter, “Assistance to Parents of Children with Disabilities.” This chapter provides numerous resources that may assist a parent with a disabled child or children.
To open the file, click on the link below.
What is a “Durable” Power of Attorney?
Many people are unaware that an ordinary power of attorney is revoked, and the agent’s power to act for the principal automatically stops, if the principal becomes incapacitated.
Under Missouri law, and the law of many other states, a power of attorney with proper wording may be made “durable.” This means that the power of the agent to act on the principal’s behalf continues despite the principal’s incapacity, whether or not a court decrees the principal to be incapacitated.
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