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Question 1: Power of Autorney can you also be beneficary of that persons will and estate.I understand this is a " living document" and is seperate from a will. Question 2: If you are listed as a benaficary, are you allowed to be a Trustee or Executorof that persons will, so sort out their funneral, house contents etc. Thank you for your time. M.E.
Optional Information: Province/Country relating to question : Sussex - UK-England Already Tried: No other to date.
-Could you explain your situation a little more?
Cannot really explain any further - To hold the position of Power of Autorney - can I also be a named Beneficary of this persons estate -
I understand this is a " living document " . (Call it Mrs Jones Estate.) and ceases on her death.
Will of the deceased Mrs Jones Estate - if I am named as a Beneficary
can I also be one of her Trustees/Executors to sort out her home,belongings ect on her death and on her behalf or does this have to be " a other named person(s)"
I cannot explain any further - thank you. ME
It would be much easier if you gave us the facts rather than a series of isolated statements and questions.
I think I know what you're asking.
If you have a power of attorney, that power ceases on death. That power of attorney does not give you the power to write a will deciding what happens to somebody's assets. If they are not capable of writing will because they have, for example, dementia then they must either die intestate or do what is known as a statutory will.
If you have been an attorney during somebody's lifetime there is no reason why the person cannot write a will making you, the attorney an executor and a beneficiary.
However the attorney cannot self appoint themselves as executors of the will, that must be done by the (the person writing the will), the testator.
Your duty as an attorney ceases on death and you have no power to do anything after that unless you are an executor.
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