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Once you've executed a Power of Attorney, can you change it? The answer is Yes. If you change your mind about the person you chose to make decisions for you under a durable power of attorney, you can change it. In order to make changes to your Power of Attorney, however, you must have Legal Mental Capacity.

Understand the power. In a power of attorney, you name someone as your attorney-in-fact (or agent) to make financial decisions for you. The power gives your agent control over any assets held in your name alone. If a bank account is owned in your name alone, your attorney-in-fact will have access to it.

While laws vary between states, a POA can't typically add or remove signers from your bank account unless you include this responsibility in the POA document.If you don't include a clause giving the POA this authority, then financial institutions won't allow your POA to make ownership changes to your accounts.

Most Agents will charge on an hourly basis, but there are occasions where they will charge on a flat fee amount on a monthly basis. I most commonly see hourly rates for family members acting as Agent in the $20.00 to $40.00 range.

Getting paid? The power of attorney or state law may say that you can be paid for acting as agent. If you will be paid, be sure you charge a reasonable fee. It is up to you to keep detailed records as you go along of what work you did, how much time it took, when you did it, and why you did it.

While laws vary between states, a POA can't typically add or remove signers from your bank account unless you include this responsibility in the POA document.If you don't include a clause giving the POA this authority, then financial institutions won't allow your POA to make ownership changes to your accounts.

The POA cannot transfer the responsibility to another Agent at any time. The POA cannot make any legal or financial decisions after the death of the Principal, at which point the Executor of the Estate would take over. The POA cannot distribute inheritances or transfer assets after the death of the Principal.