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A Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care Decisions is sometimes called the Healthcare Power of Attorney. It is a signed and witnessed or notarized legal document that allows a person to designate an agent to make health care decisions for him/her during a period of disability or incapacity. (The person who holds the power of attorney is called the healthcare agent or proxy.) The terms of the document may be fairly general or very specific, as desired. The powers granted us

Effective July 1, 2023, the ceiling amount for a Kansas small estate affidavit per K.S.A. 59-1507b increased to $75,000.00, up from the previous $40,000.00. Meaning, that in an estate where a decedent died with assets (such as bank accounts, vehicles, and personal property) that do not exceed $75,000 in value, an heir may execute a […]

I regularly receive calls from clients who are the children or grandchildren of long ago deceased parents or grandparents who owned and remain the title owners of real estate, usually farm land or undeveloped lots at or near a lake. My clients seek to establish clean title to the real estate, usually in order to […]