POTTSTOWN PA – Peace and personal relief, attorney R. Kurtz Holloway contends, may be found in – of all things – some paperwork.
Holloway, a Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township resident who also serves as township solicitor, recently wrote that the most important help his clients could offer to their loved ones is to prepare “four basic personal and estate planning documents” well before they’re ever needed. They include a will, a general power of attorney, an advance health care directive, and general information about the location of personal and financial information.
Holloway is a partner in the law firm of Wells Hoffman Holloway and Stauffer, 653 High St., Pottstown PA. An article he wrote last month (January 2011), titled “Estate and Personal Planning Basics – How to Really Help Your Family,” appears as the most recent feature on the firm’s website, here.
“Many people find themselves in difficult situations involving decision-making for a loved one who left no instructions,” Holloway wrote. “Who stands to inherit if someone dies without a will? What happens when an elderly parent becomes too mentally feeble to handle his or her finances? … These situations cause a great deal of grief and frustration, and sometimes cost substantial expense to those left to handle things,” he added.
An instruction list that details where personal and financial information can be found, complete with what are now-vital passwords and access codes, could be particularly useful, according to Holloway.
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