Davenport's Pennsylvania Wills and Estate Planning Legal Forms

This new Second Edition of this book is written by attorneys and published by Davenport Press. This book focuses on Pennsylvania Wills and Estate Planning legal documents which deal with how a person can control on absence, illness, or death their health care, end of life issues, all property, money, children and family, funeral and burial, and more. After a review of state law this book has legal forms (with filled out sample forms) to let people quickly make binding legal documents, including: (1) Last Will And Testament (With Guardians) (this form is a Will that lets people give property and control other issues after their death, and this form has a “Guardians” paragraph to name guardians to care for persons under 18 and their property in case this is ever needed); (2) Last Will And Testament (No Guardians) (this is a Will form like Form 1 but with no paragraph on guardians and is for people with no child under 18 and not giving things to any minors); (3) Self-Proving Affidavit (this form is often done with a Will to help the later process after a death of proving a Will was signed correctly, and this form makes it more likely a Will is followed); (4) Tangible Personal Property List (lets people write down in lists outside a Will wanted gifts to occur on death of “tangible personal property” like clothes, furniture, vehicles, and jewelry); (5) Codicil (this form can make changes to an existing Will, but most just do a new Will); (6) Durable Health Care Power Of Attorney And Health Care Treatment Instructions (Living Will) (in case a person later can’t control their health care this form lets a person name a “Health Care Agent” to control things (often a spouse or friend), and if wanted give health care orders); (7) P.O.L.S.T. (this form which stands for “Pennsylvania Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment” but is often called a "Do Not Resuscitate" tells paramedics and others not try to restart the heart or breathing (usually called C.P.R.) and certain other major actions); (8) Durable Power of Attorney (this form lets power over a person’s accounts, property, money, and more be shared with person like spouse or trusted friend to let them control and do things); (9) Medical Consent Authorization (For Child) (this form lets parent give power over a child’s medical care to someone to let them control this to help or because parents may be away); and (10) Statement Of Contrary Intent (For Body) (rather than as normal a person’s closest family controlling the dead body and funeral and burial, this form lets a “contrary intent” than this be said and an agent and instructions be given for this).