https://sundayeveningreview.com/tags/durable-power-of-attorney/Recent content in Durable Power of Attorney on Sunday Evening ReviewHugoen-usTue, 23 Jun 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/money/what-is-a-power-of-attorney/Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/money/what-is-a-power-of-attorney/<p>Barbara Stein called me on a Tuesday in late October. Her husband Martin had had a stroke eleven days earlier. He was sixty-nine. He was alive, he was in rehab, but he wasn&rsquo;t talking much and the left side of his body wasn&rsquo;t cooperating. The doctors were cautiously optimistic. Barbara was in the parking lot of the rehab facility, calling me from her car, and the thing she needed to tell me wasn&rsquo;t about his prognosis.</p>