Frequently on transactions people will say I'm not able to sign at the table.
Right? For some reason, I'm not either going to be present or I can't be present whatever happens to be and they say I want to sign with a power of attorney.
Right—walk through some of the issues that typically present and in what we look for.
Well again, this gets to who's allowed to sign the documents on behalf of that person. That person might be on vacation. They might be sick or something like that. So what we're looking for is a document that identifies who can sign on their behalf and what their powers are. So we're going to look to that document. It's going to be signed by the person who's granting the authority and when it was effective and what that person can do. Some Powers of Attorney say you can only do this very simple thing—you can sell my house. Others say you can do everything under the sun that deals with my finances, my properties, things like that. So Powers of Attorney vary from from space to space but that's what they're for dead. People can't sign Powers of Attorney. That's the other thing. Yeah. A person can't sign on behind on your behalf. Exactly. It's a living power and it extinguishes by law upon death.
