Wednesday. August 9, 2006 - North Shore News - 13

Health-care rules covered in agreement

By Janice Mucalov, LL.B.
Contributing Writer
PERHAPS vyourre 85
and concerned you
may be incapable of
making your own
fnancial decisions in
future.

Or vou Want tovbit cour
sisters in Europe and have
your nephew pav vour bills
while vou"re away, What can
you do? Consider a "power
of attorney.”

A power of attorney
allows anotier peren to
make financial and legal
decisions for vou. It’s a sim-
ple document where vou
appoint someone else, called
the “attorney,” to acton
vour behalf, The document
must be in a certain form
and properly signed and wit-
nessed.

Of course, you need to
consider carefully who to
give your power of attorney

to. Youll want to ensure
vou mame a fanily member
or friend vou trast, or per
haps a respected protessional
such as vour Lawyer or
accountant of a ast com
pany

The power vou conter on
the attorney can be very
limited and specitte. You
mivht, for caaimpie, grant a
power of adorney to vour
son to cash vour old age
cheques.

Or it can be very general,
giving vour attorney wide-
sweeping authority to man-
age your financial and busi-
ness affairs.

NVD value task
force established

NORTH Vancouver
District has appointed
Len Henriksson, Brian
Hobson, George
McLeod, CA, Joanna
Piros and Dolores
Holmes to the newly
formed Value Analysis
Task Force (VATF).

All members are residents
of the municipality.

The VATF will conduct 2
comprehensive analysis of
municipal = operations and
make recommendations to
improve the efficiency and
effectiveness of services to
the public.

The task force will have
the jurisdiction to examine
all areas of expenditure with-

Cook activities with

in the capital and operating
budgets, along with any and
all programs, services and
initiatives,

Said) Mavor Don Bell,
“Their review of district
business processes, and fol-
low-up recommendations,
will help enhance the level of
service provided to our resi-
dents and businesses.”

The VATF will meet with
council over the next few
weeks to determine priorities
and establish goals.

The task force is set te
provide an interim report to
council this fall and a final
report by Dec. |

Final recommendations
will 5e integrated into the
district's budget planning
orocess.

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A power of attorney ends
Wveu become mentally
incampetent and ne longer
able to make decisions.
However. vou can make
ohatis called an Cendurmye
power of attorney” fy
addinu a clause saving that
the autherty vou grant to
your attorney doesn’t end it
vou become mentally ine:
paile

An enduring power ot
attorney is tvyprally made by
people who. because of age
or iipess. want te appennt
someone to handle their
Hnanvial arfurs if and when
they can ne longer do so,

Having an enduring
power of attorney can be
sery uset). Without one, 3
court order must be
obrained declaring the elder-
Iv or ill person incapable and
appointing someone else to
manage his or her affairs.
This usually takes at Jeast a
month and costs more than
an enduring power of artor-
nev.

One tung a power of
attorney or enduring power
of attorney deesn’t do is

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