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How to get a Durable POW after stroke

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Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? IL

How do we get a durable power of attorney after a person has had a dibilitating stroke?

My 77 yr old FIL gave us(my husband and myself) the POW for Health before he had surgery, along w/ his Living Will and Do Not Resucitate. He had a Global Aphasia stroke which has serverely affected his ability to speak, understand speech and to write (along w/ being self-sufficent). He will need to be placed in a nursing home and will need to use Medicaid. He is currently in a rehab facility under Medicare.

We will need to cash in his only assets - his life insurance policies totaling about $20K - to place him in the home. The insurance companies are requesting a Durable POW.

How do we get a Durable POW if he barely understands us when we speak to him, and he cannot write? He could possibly use his non-writing hand to scribble.
 


Zigner

Senior Member, Non-Attorney
You won't be able to do the POA. You should be looking in to a conservatorship.
 

Durable needed

Junior Member
A conservatorship sounds like H*e*l*l ! Esp needing to go into the Daley center in Chgo for a supervised one. 1.5hrs away (on a good day) He has no assets here. (I just read the cook co. courts instructions)

Is there another way? Are you sure his scribble (w/ a witness) would not work?
 

Zigner

Senior Member, Non-Attorney
A conservatorship sounds like H*e*l*l ! Esp needing to go into the Daley center in Chgo for a supervised one. 1.5hrs away (on a good day) He has no assets here. (I just read the cook co. courts instructions)

Is there another way? Are you sure his scribble (w/ a witness) would not work?
Just to be clear...
I was suggesting that YOU (your spouse) become the conservator.
 

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