So there’s….there are a lot of main documents or several important main documents. Somebody should have. The three that really pretty much everybody needs are a will, a power of attorney, and a healthcare directive. Now that is in Georgia, it will vary state by state, the will is going to obviously most people know it tells where your assets go and you pass away and tells who your executor is. The power of attorney gives someone, whoever you name permission to do financial things for you while you’re alive, and so it’s designed for incapacity or maybe out of the country or something like that. And then the healthcare directive deals with naming somebody to make healthcare decisions for you. If you can’t for yourself, and then it also breaks down your wishes on things like that.
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