[WSBAPT] DPOAs for Multiple States

[Paul Neumiller]

Listmates, how do you address this situation?  I generally advise estate planning clients to have a Durable Power of Attorney and a Health Care Decisions DPOA using the state of residency because I want the doctors and others who are to act under the documents to accept them and I believe a WA doctor, for example, will more readily accept a DPOA citing WA law.  (And my standard DPOA forms say they revoke all prior DPOAs).  OK, so I have WA clients that have family in TX (the grandchildren) and split a lot of time between TX and WA.  Is it possible to draft the WA DPOAs to say they are good for anywhere and specifically recognize that "clients" do not revoke their TX DPOAs, and will defer to the TX DPOAs if the clients use them in TX?


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