How to Use power of attorney in a Sentence

power of attorney

noun phrase

• Kruse was also named a co-trustee of Priscilla’s trust and was granted powers of attorney.
  — Chloe Melas, NBC News, 22 July 2024
• The new law allows a court to merely suspend the power of attorney during guardianship.
  — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2023
• His financial assets are held in a trust, with Hard named as trustee as well as Wilson’s power of attorney.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2024
• My health care proxy, power of attorney and other legal papers are with them.
  — R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2024
• Signing a power of attorney on a gloomy day in January?
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2023
• For that reason, passports, powers of attorney and wills should normally not be placed in a safe deposit box.
  — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 25 June 2023
• Hickox was friends and neighbors with Abraham Lincoln, then a lawyer from Springfield, and the three men met in Lincoln’s law office to draft a power of attorney.
  — Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2024
• In the above story, the author suggests that older clients need a financial power of attorney.
  — Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• My sister had power of attorney for financial matters for my mom and now the funds that my mom received from the reverse mortgage are gone.
  — Ilyce Glink and Samuel J. Tamkin, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2023
• By that point, Goodwin had helped manage her medical care and finances and been named her power of attorney.
  — Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2023
• Both these options cede less control than giving a child or someone else a power of attorney over your account.
  — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
• But the power of attorney was never revoked after Sawusch’s release from jail.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
• Flores used the power of attorney to open bank accounts in Sawusch’s name and gain access to his money, prosecutors said.
  — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• Since her mom was on a joint bank account with her grandmother, Revere was able to get her mom to give her power of attorney to tap that money for the late mortgage payments.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
• In our case, Medicaid also required my cousin to obtain a new power of attorney.
  — Dawn Alley, STAT, 16 Nov. 2023
• Her other son, Anthony Gonzales, by means of a power of attorney from his mother, signed the deed on her behalf.
  — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Apr. 2023
• But the next day, Kruse says Froch sent her a cease-and-desist on behalf of Presley, revoking her power of attorney and alleging self-dealing.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2024
• In May 2020, her mother’s condition led Stevens to receive power of attorney.
  — Austindedios, oregonlive, 26 Apr. 2023
• The results found that medical/healthcare powers of attorney are more common than wills or living trusts.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
• His two brothers have challenged the validity of the power of attorney, court documents show.
  — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Apr. 2023
• His adult daughter, Mallory, had persuaded him to grant her and Susan power of attorney a few years earlier.
  — Robert Kolker, New York Times, 20 July 2023
• All these wishes should be executed through a durable power of attorney form and what is sometimes called an advance health directive or living will.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 20 July 2024
• But then there are also limited powers of attorney that are used for a particular purpose.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
• That violated the scope of the power of attorney agreement, prosecutors say.
  — The Enquirer, 1 Apr. 2024
• Prior to his death at the Dachau concentration camp in 1941, Grünbaum was forced to transfer power of attorney to his wife, Elisabeth, who was later coerced to hand over her husband's art collection to the Nazis.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2023
• An elderly mom names her oldest son her agent under her financial power of attorney.
  — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• The power of attorney could also be used if a person were to become incapacitated.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2023
• Losing that would be devastating for Ramos, said Jacquie Richardson, who co-founded the boxers foundation and now has power of attorney to help with Ramos’ medical care and finances.
  — Melody Gutierrez, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
• His son Pierce had been given power of attorney and Marshall's caregiver Betty Morgan became his legal guardian.
  — Allie Yang, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2024
• Sign your medical power of attorney and directive to physicians.
  — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 9 July 2023

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024