I've learned that it's vital to tell someone you trust where your important papers are, how to access your online banking, etc.
Getting access to her accounts to pay her bills, etc., has been a nightmare. Due to her brain injury, she cannot tell me where anything is located and I've made many trips to her house (50 miles away) to scrounge through papers, file cabinets, drawers and mail looking for insurance papers, tax returns, and so on. There's a safe in the house I don't have the combination to.
More than likely I will have to hire an attorney to to go before a judge to get power of attorney to keep her bills paid and sell her house if, God forbid, it comes to that.
She and I have talked about this in the past but never got around to it.
It's not a pleasant subject, but believe me, you don't want to have to worry about something like this when someone is ill.
Getting access to her accounts to pay her bills, etc., has been a nightmare. Due to her brain injury, she cannot tell me where anything is located and I've made many trips to her house (50 miles away) to scrounge through papers, file cabinets, drawers and mail looking for insurance papers, tax returns, and so on. There's a safe in the house I don't have the combination to.
More than likely I will have to hire an attorney to to go before a judge to get power of attorney to keep her bills paid and sell her house if, God forbid, it comes to that.
She and I have talked about this in the past but never got around to it.
It's not a pleasant subject, but believe me, you don't want to have to worry about something like this when someone is ill.