Managing Your Financial and Personal Affairs
Enduring Powers of Attorney: Being an Attorney
This guide provides information about the role of an attorney appointed in an enduring power of attorney.
Optional Forms for New Brunswick’s Enduring Powers of Attorney Act:
Record-Keeping Form: Attorney for Property
This is a form that an attorney for property can use to keep records in accordance with the Enduring Powers of Attorney Act in New Brunswick. Before you fill out this form, you should read the PLEIS-NB guide called Enduring Powers of Attorney: Being an Attorney.
Record-Keeping Form: Attorney for Personal Care
This is a form that an attorney for personal care can use to keep records in accordance with the Enduring Powers of Attorney Act in New Brunswick. Before you fill out this form, you should read the PLEIS-NB guide called Enduring Powers of Attorney: Being an Attorney.
Capacity Assessment Report
This is a form that can be used to record the results of a capacity assessment conducted in accordance with the Enduring Powers of Attorney Act in New Brunswick. It is intended to be used when a grantor’s capacity is being assessed to determine whether their attorney(s) may begin to exercise authority.
Public Legal Education and Information Service of New Brunswick (PLEIS-NB) is a non-profit, charitable organization. Its goal is to help the public know the law. PLEIS-NB receives funding and in-kind support from the Department of Justice Canada, the New Brunswick Law Foundation and the Office of the Attorney General of New Brunswick.
This revised booklet integrates the information from two existing booklets, namely, Powers of Attorney and Powers of Attorney for Personal Care. The latter booklet will no longer remain in print. We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the Office of the Public Trustee and members of the Law Society of New Brunswick, in the development of this booklet.
The purpose of this booklet is to describe the different kinds of powers of attorney, explain how to set them up and explore some advantages of doing so. You can create powers of attorney to deal with your property and financial affairs and/or your personal care. Creating a power of attorney is one way that you can plan for the future. This booklet does not contain a complete statement of the law in this area. Laws change from time to time. For specific advice on your legal situation, you should consult a lawyer.
Published by:
Public Legal Education and Information Service of New Brunswick
P.O. Box 6000
Fredericton, NB, E3B 5H1
(506) 453-5369
www.legal-info-legale.nb.ca
Printed: March 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4605-0454-3
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