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If you cannot speak for yourself and have not assigned someone medical Power of Attorney, your health care providers will look to your family or close friends to help make decisions about your care. If they are unsure or cannot agree, a court-appointed guardian may be requested to make the decisions for you.

This Power of Attorney authorizes another person (your agent) to make decisions concerning your property for you (the principal). Your agent will be able to make decisions and act with respect to your property (including your money) whether or not you are able to act for yourself.

In Wisconsin, there are two main types of powers of attorney: the power of attorney for finances and property (also called a financial power of attorney) and the power of attorney for health care.

319. 244.05 Execution of power of attorney. To execute a power of attorney the principal must sign the power of attorney or another individual, in the principal's conscious presence and directed by the principal, must sign the principal's name on the power of attorney.

If you initialed "real property," giving your agent the power to conduct transactions with real estate, you should also file a copy of your POA in the land records office in the county where you own real estate or expect to deal with real estate in the future. In Wisconsin, this office is called the register of deeds.

So for the benefit of everyone watching, just remember financial power of attorney, you don't need witnesses but best practice is to sign in front of a notary public and for the healthcare power of attorney, you must have those disinterested witnesses and it can't be a health care provider, someone who's financially ...