While many people are familiar with the concept of a single Enduring Power of Attorney (EPOA), what about having more than one Attorney?
In regard to EPOA for personal care and welfare you can only ever have one Attorney at any one time. However, if you can appoint successor attorney’s where there they will step into the role if the first attorney is unwilling or unable to act.
A donor (the person donating their authority and whose EPOA it is) can appoint 1,2, 3 or more attorneys to act on their behalf. This can be jointly, severely or both. They can also account successor attorneys as you can with personal care and welfare.
The reason why you can only ever have one attorney for personal care and welfare is that they may have to make a very important health care decision for the Donor and if there are two people, this would lead to opposite opinions.
The donor can also state that the attorney and successor attorneys have a duty to consult with certain people and also provide them with information.
