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What is a power of attorney in Oklahoma?

So, under Oklahoma law, you can have a power of attorney, a document that you have drafted up that you sign off on, and that gives somebody else authority to make decisions on your behalf.

Now, the difference between a power of attorney and guardianship is that, in a guardianship, you would have to be determined to be incapacitated.

You lose your right to make those decisions. The guardian gets those rights to make those decisions, and it's a court order.

So, they've got a court order they can show people and people need to follow that court order and acknowledge that you have the right to make those decisions. So, with the power of attorney, the person that is giving power of attorney to another person, they are not giving up their rights to make those decisions.

They remain to have the capacity, can make their own decisions. They can revoke the power of attorney at any time, but it adds you on as being able to make those decisions. And you've got a document, but it's not entered by a court. It's not signed by a judge.

It's just signed by the person that is authorizing that delegation of authority and perhaps witnesses and notary public signing off on that.

But the laws regarding powers of attorney do not require that other people accept that. They provide that there is indemnity should they accept that power of attorney to their peril, but they don't have to accept it.

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