[WSBAPT] DPOA Unraveling

Mon Oct 20 13:33:29 PDT 2025

Agreed.

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*From:* wsbapt-bounces at lists.wsbarppt.com <wsbapt-bounces at lists.wsbarppt.com>
*On Behalf Of *Shannon Jones
*Sent:* Monday, October 20, 2025 1:29 PM
*To:* WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv <wsbapt at lists.wsbarppt.com>
*Subject:* Re: [WSBAPT] DPOA Unraveling

Your client was the mother and when you were getting conflicting info from
third parties (son, doctor, sister? daughter?), you told client/mother you
could no longer help her. Your former client has now signed a new DPOA that
you had nothing to do with. That DPOA may be invalid. I don’t think you do
anything except maintain your client confidences (from former
representation of the mother). It sounds like a court order may be needed
to work this out.

*Shannon R. Jones | Attorney *

Campbell Barnett PLLC

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*From:* wsbapt-bounces at lists.wsbarppt.com <wsbapt-bounces at lists.wsbarppt.com>
*On Behalf Of *Terry Gobel
*Sent:* Monday, October 20, 2025 1:05 PM
*To:* wsbapt at lists.wsbarppt.com
*Subject:* [WSBAPT] DPOA Unraveling

A couple of years ago, a client signed an estate plan, including a
springing DPOA. Recently, her son, who she named as AIF, contacted me and
said she was hospitalized with a serious condition and her mental state had
deteriorated to the point where he needed to step in under the DPOA. I told
him to get a letter from the attending physician with that clinical
determination. He did that and sent me a signed and dated letter from his
mother’s physician that stated she could no longer made decisions for
herself in her best interests. Then, about a month later, the client called
me to say that her son was meddling in her life and trying to take over and
she wanted me to intervene. Then, she handed the phone over to her sister,
but I told her that I could not help her. The son, then reached out and
said his sister, who had been estranged from his mother for many years,
suddenly appeared in the mother’s life and was trying to undo the estate
plan. A few days ago, the sister (formerly estranged daughter of my client)
emailed me a revocation of POA written up on a Bank of America form and a
newly notarized POA signed by my former client.

I don’t know who is on “first” here, but I know the physician and trust his
assessment. What should I do? What should I not do?

Very truly yours,

Terry D. Gobel, J.D.

Gobel Law Office, PLLC

421 W. Riverside Avenue, Suite 908

Spokane, Washington 99201

(509) 624-4102

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