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Anonymous wrote:Someone told me today that I need to get a Power of Attorney for my kid who is going to college this fall. The scenario raised was that if DS was somehow incapacitated a hospital would not be able to talk with me (his parent) about his care as he is over 18. I'm sure there are many lawyers on this board (as well as college parents of course) - thoughts?

Thanks.

Can someone give me the simple steps of what I need to do and which forms I should get? Print them out, then what? Thank you

Mama Bear legal forms has this done. It is very possible to look them up and download for free, but it was worth the time it saved for me.

Plus it has an app where you can upload the signed forms and email them if they are needed.

Anonymous wrote:I see people recommending Mama Bear. Did you all actually read the forms? I paid for them and then decided not to use them because some of the language was weird. For example, this:

I believe that my life is precious, and I wish to live and enjoy my life as long as possible. I do not want health care providers to act or fail to act in a way that will intentionally cause my death. However, I do not wish to receive medical treatment which will only postpone the moment of my death from an end stage condition or prolong a permanently unconscious state.

Both my spouse and I have POA docs and they don't contain statements of beliefs about life or whatever. I have no idea if there are any legal implications from those statements, but we just had our family lawyer draw up docs instead. We had the HIPAA information authorization, health care POA, and financial POA documents done. DS had a choice about whether he wanted to sign them, and he said he did. He knows this means we have access to his medical and financial information, but he trusts us and knows we will only access it if he asks or if it's an emergency. We were on the fence about whether we even needed the financial one, but decided might as well get it.

Anonymous wrote:My kid is going out of state and am planning to get this done. Kid turns 18 during fall semester. So will the form still be valid if we get it signed/notarized now or do we have to wait till kid turns 18? Sorry, not familiar with the rules and hope someone was in a similar situation.