Book Description

Davenport's Virginia Wills And Estate Planning Legal Forms is a book published by Davenport Press and written by attorneys. This short book is written specifically for Virginia and explains state law and provides most of the standard Virginia legal forms. This Virginia book is better than most other legal books with just generic law and forms. The subject of this book is Virginia Wills and Estate Planning which is about how to control upon illness, death, or absence things like health care, gifting property and money, children, sharing power with someone to let them help do things, and picking legal options and persons to do things. Forms can be copied from the book or downloaded free at www.davenportpress.org. In this book about 10 legal forms are explained and provided, which are: 1. Last Will And Testament (lets one give orders to on death gift most property, choose guardians for children and their property, authorize less burdensome legal options to be used, pick person to be executor to handle affairs, and control other matters); 2. Last Will And Testament (No Guardians) (this Will form has no "Guardians" paragraph and is for people without minor children and also not giving property or money to any minors); 3. Self-Proving Affidavit (this form is often done with a Will to avoid work after a death of showing a Will was signed correctly by getting testimony of witnesses to the Will signing, and using this form increases the chance a Will is enforceable); 4. Tangible Personal Property List (lets one write in a simple list outside a Will wanted gifts to occur on death of "tangible personal property" like clothes, furniture, tools, jewelry, and vehicles, which list can be done or redone anytime and just needs to be signed); 5. Codicil (lets parts of a Will be removed or added to); 6. Virginia Advance Medical Directive (sometimes called "Combined Power Of Attorney For Health Care And Living Will" lets a person be named to control health care in case one cannot later control own health care and lets many health care instructions be given); 7. Durable Do Not Resuscitate (this form can be requested from a doctor when in very bad health to quickly show paramedics and other medical personnel to not try restarting the heart or breathing and certain other major actions); 8. Virginia Power Of Attorney (sometimes called "Financial Power Of Attorney" lets power over one's money, property, and other matters be shared with a very trusted person so they can do things when someone is ill or busy and wants help); 9. Designation To Control Funeral And Disposition Of Remains (lets person be designated to control funeral, disposition of remains, and related matters rather than have closest family member do this, and the form also has space for suggestions to be given); and 1 0. Power Of Attorney Of Parent and Standby Guardian (one form lets someone else be given power over child to help control them when parents are away of unavailable, and another form is used by parents who may fall badly ill or die and it arranges for someone to have power over children immediately upon a trigger event).