incapacity planning in florida: essential concepts and issues
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All incapacity plans will address various parts of your life that will need to be managed should you become incapacitated.TRANSCRIPT
INCAPACITY PLANNING IN FLORIDA PART 1 OF
2Essential Concepts And Issues
INCAPACITATION
WHAT IS INCAPACITATION OR
INCAPACITY?
Most able-bodied adults are capable of making their own
decisions
Legally, this concept is
referred to as CAPACITY
If you lose the ability to make decisions for yourself, you
become LEGALLY INCAPACITATED
DECISIONS
WHAT CAUSES INCAPACITATION?
Your ability to make choices rests on your cognitive abilities
Should you become comatose, lose certain mental faculties because of an illness, such as
Alzheimer’s disease,
Or experience any other problem that affects your
ability to make choices, you can lose your legal capacity
PREPARATIONS
HOW DO I PLAN FOR INCAPACITY?
By making various types of documents that gives you the ability to make choices now,
while you are still able
As long as you are capable adult, there are steps you can
take
That will help ensure your choices will be honored should
you become incapacitated
INCAPACITY PLANS
WHAT WILL MY INCAPACITY PLAN ALLOW ME TO DO?
All incapacity plans will address various parts of your
life that will need to be managed should you become
incapacitated
These tools will address medical, financial, and other
vital topics
We’ll talk about the specifics of these tools in our next
presentation on incapacity
LEARN MORE ABOUT INCAPACITY PLANNING IN
FLORIDA
Robert J Kulas, PAAttorneys at Law
www.kulaslaw.com(772) 398-0720