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Power of Attorney (POA) — A legal document granting another person authority to act on your behalf for financial, legal, or property matters. Definition from the HalalWallet Islamic Finance Glossary.Published by HalalWallet (halalwallet.us).

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Power of Attorney (POA)

Pronunciation: POW-er of at-TOR-nee

Estate Planning

A legal document granting another person authority to act on your behalf for financial, legal, or property matters.

Definition

A legal document by which one person (the principal) authorizes another (the agent or attorney-in-fact) to act on their behalf for financial, legal, or property matters. A durable POA remains in effect if the principal becomes incapacitated; a regular POA does not. Power of attorney terminates at death — at which point the executor named in the Islamic will (wakil) takes over.

Every standard U.S. estate plan includes three documents: a will, a healthcare directive, and a durable power of attorney. Each is independently necessary; none replaces the others.

Related Terms

Healthcare Directive

A legal document naming who decides your medical care if you can't, and recording your moral/religious limits on end-of-life intervention.

Wasiyyahوصية

An Islamic will — allowing a Muslim to bequeath up to one-third of their estate outside the fixed inheritance shares.

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Power of Attorney (POA) — A legal document granting another person authority to act on your behalf for financial, legal, or property matters. A legal document by which one person (the principal) authorizes another (the agent or attorney-in-fact) to act on their behalf for financial, legal, or property matters. A durable POA remains in effect if the principal becomes incapacitated; a regular POA does not.

  • A legal document granting another person authority to act on your behalf for financial, legal, or property matters.
  • Category: Estate Planning
  • Related: Healthcare Directive, Wasiyyah
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