Create a Power Of Attorney
Our website uses the generic names "Living Will" and "Financial Power of Attorney" when describing our services. However, each State has its own name for these documents which allow you to name a representative to take care of either your healthcare or financial decisions.

Rest assured that our services will create the correctly named documents for your location.

Services Included in MyPowerOfAttorney™

The services included in MyPowerOfAttorney™ can be used to seamlessly craft a fully customizable Financial Power of Attorney. 

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Legal Financial Power of Attorney customized for Canada, U.S., South Africa, England or Wales.

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Choose whether the Power of Attorney is effective immediately, or only after you have been declared incapacitated (options vary, depending on your local jurisdiction).

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Create a durable/continuing Power of Attorney that continues to be effective whether or not you are able to handle your own affairs.

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Appoint up to 3 people to act on your behalf, including options for multiple alternates and replacements.

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Decide whether the people you nominate can act independently, or must act together (options vary, depending on your local jurisdiction).

How It Works

When you create a Will or legal document at LegalWills, you can designate up to 20 different Keyholders®. Your chosen Keyholders® will be given the trust and power to unlock specific information within your account such as health care directives, funeral wishes, final messages, uploaded files, Power of Attorney, or Last Will and Testament.

You can also implement security mechanisms to prevent premature access to these documents. The entire process of creating your Will and other legal documents at LegalWills is seamless and iterative, meaning you can continue to make changes until you're happy with the final product.
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Create Your Documents in Five Easy Steps

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Create Your Documents

Creating your documents is quick and easy with LegalWills. Simply fill out the required fields and proceed to the next step.

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Select Your Keyholders®

Entrust up to 20 individuals to unlock your wishes when the time is right.

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Edit Your Documents for Up To One Year for Free

Make any changes to your documents using our online service.

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Keyholders® Request Access

When the time is right, your selected Keyholders® will have the ability to unlock your wishes.

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Documents are Released to Keyholders®

When the time comes and your Keyholders® request access to your documents, your wishes will be entrusted in their hands.

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Frequently Asked Questions

The MyPowerOfAttorney™ service steps you through a simple question and answer wizard, formats your answers into a readable format, and allows you to make unlimited updates while allowing you to store your information securely online.  You can then designate your own personal "Keyholders® ", who with their unique ID can unlock your Power of Attorney at the appropriate time.

The complete pricing structure is available on our Products & Prices page.

According to current laws in most jurisdictions, in order to be a legal document your Power of Attorney must be signed in the presence of two witnesses, and in most cases in front of a Notary Public.  A Notary Public has the legal standing to administer oaths and officiate over the signing process.  In other words, they are an independent person who will determine that all parties signed of their own free will, and that they are all who they say they are.

However, "electronic signature" laws are moving rapidly and we are closely monitoring these laws to support the future electronic notarization of documents, or even the electronic signature of your Power of Attorney.  It is only a matter of time before this becomes standard practice in preparing legal documents.  According to today's laws you will need to print the Power of Attorney you create with the MyPowerOfAttorney™ service and have it signed according to the laws in your area.  More details about this process are available on the help pages within the wizard. 

Although the unsigned version of your Power of Attorney stored online at [lblWebName5] is not a legal document, if you wish you can allow one or more of your designated Keyholders® to have access to the Power of Attorney that you have created here at [lblWebName6].  This could be important if your legally signed copy cannot be located.  In this situation, your [lblWebName7] Power of Attorney can still provide some guidance to a loving family, as they can understand how you would want your legal, financial and/or business matters to be handled.

You can choose to have a 1-year, 10-year, 25-year or Life membership at [lblWebName8], during which time you can make as many updates or amendments to your Power of Attorney as you wish at no extra charge.  Details of the membership packages available can be found on our Products & Prices page.

The question and answer wizard can be completed in less than ten minutes.  The wizard has a wealth of helpful information that you will likely find educational and useful.  You should take the time to read through as much of this as possible, so that the Power of Attorney is not simply created, but you understand exactly what it means.

When working through the MyPowerOfAttorney™ service at [lblWebName9] you do not have to complete the document in one sitting.  You can answer a couple of questions and then store these wishes securely online here at [lblWebName10] until you have a few more minutes to answer additional questions.  If you prefer, you can spend many weeks or months making unlimited updates until you are happy with your final results, at which point you could have your final copy reviewed and signed.

All of your information stored at [lblWebName11] is safe and secure.  Your information is so highly encrypted that nobody has access to this information other than yourself and your trusted Keyholders® using their randomly generated personal key.  Even the owners and administrators of [lblWebName12] are not able to access your information due to the software design and encryption methods used.

Note, however, that some services require temporary decryption of a member's documents as part of the operation of providing that service.  For example, if the member wants to have their Will reviewed by one of our legal professionals, or wants to have their documents printed and mailed to them, then the software will automatically decrypt these documents as part of the member's instructions to have these services performed.

All data passing from your computer to [lblWebName13] is authenticated and encrypted using 256-bit "SSL encryption".  This is the most advanced level of encryption available today, and it means that any information sent from your computer is scrambled in a way which makes it completely unintelligible if intercepted.  When you are on a secure section within the web site, a padlock will appear on your web browser.  This is your assurance that the encryption is in place and that you are communicating across a secure link.

Furthermore, [lblWebName14] uses an industry standard high security streaming-encryption algorithm known as "RSA" to encrypt all of your information before it is stored online.  To give you a feeling for the level of security provided by this encryption, it has been estimated that with the most efficient algorithms known to date, it would take a computer operating at 1 million instructions per second over 300 quintillion years (that's 3 with 20 zeros behind it!) to break the encryption. That's several trillion times longer than the age of the Earth.

All of our data is securely stored in a highly encrypted format on database servers. To protect against catastrophic data loss, daily backups are performed on each of our servers. Hence, if any one of our servers experienced technical difficulties, the data would not be at risk.

Furthermore, physical protection of our primary systems includes:

  • Fire detection and fire suppression systems with dry pipe pre-action sprinkler systems
  • N + 1 redundant power supplies, providing dual power feeds and backup batteries, water coolant systems and generators
  • N + 1 redundant climate control, providing primary and backup chiller units, cooling towers, and water storage
  • Local network operations center (NOC) for monitoring all data center operations
  • 24x7 monitoring and support of network connection and server availability
  • 24x7 uniformed guard service with interior and exterior closed-circuit television surveillance
  • Electronic access at all data center entrances, including biometric hand scanners
  • Electronic key management systems and individually keyed cabinets

As you can see, we take the security and privacy of all of our member information very seriously.

Services such as MyFuneral™, MyLifeLocker™, MyVault™, and MyMessages™ do not create legal documents and make no assumptions about your country of residence. 

In the US, Canada, England and Wales, we have worked extensively to ensure that the legal documents created by the MyWill™, MyExpatWill™ and MyLivingWill™ services are up to date with the laws in all of the states in the United States and the provinces in Canada, including: Alabama, Alaska, Alberta, Arizona, Arkansas, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward Island, Québec, Rhode Island, Saskatchewan, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington D.C., West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and Yukon.  Hence, these services can be used to generate legal documents in any state in the United States with the exception of Louisiana, and any Canadian Province or Territory, and in England and Wales in the United Kingdom.

Furthermore, the MyPowerOfAttorney™ service is available for all States in the United States except Louisiana, and for all Provinces and Territories in Canada. In the UK, power of attorney forms are provided free of charge by the government.

Note that even in unsupported areas, there is value in stepping through the wizards provided in these services in preparation for a consultation with an attorney.  It is strongly recommended that residents outside of the above supported states/provinces/countries seek legal advice even after completing the wizards. Local laws in these unsupported areas have not been considered in the structure of the legal documents.

If you have any doubts about the legal standing of any documents in your jurisdiction, feel free to seek legal counsel in your area to have your documents reviewed.

There is a considerable amount of information included in the on-line help of the MyPowerOfAttorney™ wizard.  This will answer most of the common questions regarding the steps included in creating your own Power of Attorney. 

For information about the other services available, or about [lblWebName15] in general, you can browse this website or send an email to [lnkSupportEmail1].  We will be happy to answer any questions you may have.

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