This is one in a series of state-by-state interviews with eminent legal professionals who explain how to ensure your wishes are respected and how your affairs will be handled if you lose capacity as you age.
Financial decisions, big or small, are important for everyone’s wellbeing and security at any time in life, but they are vital as people age.
If you lose the ability to manage your own financial affairs, how will they be handled? Who will decide to pay your bills or choose how your care will be funded?
Making an enduring power of attorney is an important thing to get right, because it is the document that will outline how you want decisions made about your financial affairs if you can’t make them yourself.
Compass was joined by John Chesterman, Public Advocate (QLD), for an important conversation about making an enduring power of attorney for financial decisions in Queensland. And everyone had their questions ready for this Q&A event
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Find out more about why you should consider making an enduring power for your financial decisions
If you do decide to make an enduring power, we discussed how You Decide Who Decides will help you reduce the risk of things going wrong .
John Chesterman is the Queensland Public Advocate. A lawyer and historian by training, John has expertise in the fields of human rights, guardianship, supported decision making, powers of attorney and elder abuse.
Prior to taking up his current position John was Victoria’s Deputy Public Advocate. He has previously undertaken a Churchill Fellowship on the topic of adult safeguarding, and his books include, as co-author, The politics of human rights in Australia (CUP).
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