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Actually, a healthcare power of attorney is now something called a healthcare surrogate. Florida created a healthcare surrogate many, many, many years ago in order to allow one person to be appointed in a notarized, witnessed document that will be accepted by hospitals and doctors to make decisions for a person who cannot make decisions for themselves in the health realm.

The answer to that is no. If there is an estate that is insolvent, meaning that the debts are greater than the assets, in that event, no one from a creditor standpoint is probably going to get any money from that estate, because whatever money is in the estate will have to be probated, and the costs of administration are paid first before anyone else can get anything, including creditors or beneficiaries. In summary, the answer is no.

No, you do not need the original will, but it does make the process a lot more expedient. There is a process in which you can file a copy of a will with the court, but there is additional steps that would need to be taken to authenticate that will.

Estate creditors are handled with publication of the notice to creditors in your local newspaper and it also requires that we place known creditors on notice of the administration of the estate.

The notice to creditors is a probate document that gets published in your local newspaper that places creditors on notice of the estate administration.