If you become incapacitated you should already have your Durable Power of Attorney (DPOA) and Advance Health Care Directive (AHCD). You DPOA allows your agent to manage your legal, financial and property matters while your AHCD allows your agent to make medical decisions for you. If you do not have a DPOA and AHCD and you become incapacitated it will be too late to create these documents and it will be necessary for your loved ones to go to court to be named your conservator. Having a DPOA and AHCD already in place will avoid the need for a conservatorship.
