Nevada Individual Estate Document Package

Understand What Each Document Controls

The four documents are related but are not interchangeable.

Last will and testament

The will provides instructions for property that becomes part of the estate after death and may nominate a personal representative.

Financial power of attorney

The financial power of attorney grants an agent authority over the financial and property subjects selected by the customer.

Healthcare power of attorney

The healthcare power of attorney appoints an agent to make authorized healthcare decisions.

Living will or advance directive

The living will records the customer’s own instructions concerning life-sustaining treatment and related future care.

A personal representative named in the will does not receive authority merely because the customer is alive but incapacitated.

A financial agent does not automatically receive healthcare authority.

A healthcare agent does not automatically receive authority over property or accounts.

A living will does not distribute property or grant broad financial authority.

This Package Is for One Adult

This record covers one coordinated package for one adult.

A spouse, domestic partner, family member, or other adult requires separate documents and a separate intake.

The couple’s package should be used when two adults each need their own:

• Will
• Financial power of attorney
• Healthcare power of attorney
• Advance directive

One person’s document should not simply be copied for another person without independent information, selections, appointments, and approval.

Make the Estate Decisions Before Preparation

The customer must decide:

• Who will receive property
• What each beneficiary will receive
• Who will receive the remaining estate
• What happens if a beneficiary dies first
• Who will serve as personal representative
• Who will serve as an alternate
• Whether guardian nominations are requested
• Whether anyone will be intentionally omitted
• Who will serve as financial agent
• Which financial powers will be granted
• Who will serve as healthcare agent
• Which healthcare powers will be granted
• Which treatment instructions will be included

Lake Mead Mobile Notary cannot recommend beneficiaries, distribution shares, representatives, agents, authority, or medical treatment choices.

Qualification for the Standard Package

The package may be appropriate when:

• One adult is preparing one document set
• Beneficiaries are clearly identified
• Most gifts will pass outright
• Distribution instructions are straightforward
• The customer can provide complete family information
• Financial authority can be selected through the controlled form
• Healthcare authority can be clearly stated
• Treatment instructions can be entered through the controlled directive
• No trust is being created
• No substantial tax planning is requested
• No extensive beneficiary-protection planning is requested
• The customer understands the requested terms
• There is no known dispute concerning capacity or voluntary intent

Attorney or other professional review may be appropriate when the matter involves:

• A blended family
• Children from multiple relationships
• A spouse or child the customer wants to omit
• Minor beneficiaries receiving substantial property
• A beneficiary with a disability or means-tested benefits
• A beneficiary with creditor, addiction, bankruptcy, or financial-management concerns
• Foreign beneficiaries
• Business succession
• Complex real estate
• Foreign property
• A premarital or postmarital agreement
• A trust or prior coordinated estate plan
• Significant tax concerns
• Medicaid or long-term-care planning
• Extensive conditional gifts
• Gifts or transfers benefiting an agent
• Pending divorce, bankruptcy, litigation, or creditor claims
• Concerns about undue influence, coercion, or capacity

A Will Does Not Automatically Avoid Probate

The will provides instructions for estate administration; it is not automatically a probate-avoidance instrument.

Nevada probate law governs the process for presenting and proving wills, appointing representatives, resolving estate obligations, and administering property subject to probate.

Customers whose primary objective is avoiding probate, managing assets through a trust, or coordinating multiple transfer methods should obtain legal and financial guidance before selecting this package.

A Will May Not Control Every Asset

Some property may pass according to title, contract, trust ownership, or beneficiary designation rather than the will.

The customer should separately review items such as:

• Jointly owned property
• Payable-on-death accounts
• Transfer-on-death accounts
• Life-insurance beneficiary designations
• Retirement beneficiary designations
• Property held in a trust
• Property subject to a deed upon death
• Business interests controlled by an operating or buy-sell agreement

Lake Mead Mobile Notary does not audit every title, account, policy, contract, or beneficiary designation.

Choose the Agents Carefully

The customer may appoint the same person or different people for financial and healthcare roles.

Each proposed agent should generally be someone who:

• Is trusted
• Is willing to serve
• Understands the assigned role
• Can follow written instructions
• Is reasonably available
• Can communicate with institutions or providers
• Can protect private information
• Can maintain appropriate records
• Can manage disagreement
• Has no unresolved conflict with the customer

Lake Mead Mobile Notary does not investigate an agent’s history or certify that an agent is trustworthy.

Financial Authority Must Be Selected by the Customer

The customer must determine which financial subjects the agent may handle.

Additional attorney review should be considered when the requested authority involves:

• Gifts
• Trust creation, amendment, or termination
• Beneficiary changes
• Survivorship rights
• Transfers benefiting the agent
• Medicaid planning
• Major real-estate transfers
• Business succession
• Significant investments
• Estate-tax planning
• Disclaimers or refusals of property
• Conflicting family interests

Nevada requires express authority for several actions that can materially alter the principal’s property or estate plan.

Healthcare Authority and Treatment Choices Are Separate Decisions

The healthcare power of attorney appoints an agent.

The living will records the customer’s treatment instructions.

The customer must separately decide:

• Who will serve as agent
• Which decisions the agent may make
• Which authority is withheld
• Whether special healthcare instructions are needed
• Whether life-sustaining treatment should be withheld or withdrawn under stated circumstances
• What comfort-focused care instructions should be included
• Whether artificial nutrition or hydration instructions are requested

Questions about diagnosis, prognosis, treatment burdens, pain control, hospice, resuscitation, or artificial nutrition should be discussed with a healthcare professional.

Agent Eligibility Requires Review

Nevada places restrictions on certain healthcare providers, facility operators, and facility employees serving as healthcare agents unless an applicable exception exists.

Additional review is required when the proposed healthcare agent is:

• The customer’s physician
• Another treating healthcare provider
• An employee of the treating provider
• An owner or operator of a healthcare facility
• An employee of the facility where the customer resides
• A paid caregiver
• A person whose interests may conflict with the customer’s healthcare choices

Lake Mead Mobile Notary does not resolve disputed appointments.

The Documents Have Different Execution Requirements

The documents should not be signed as though they all have identical formalities.

A conventional Nevada will ordinarily requires the testator and at least two competent witnesses.

The standard financial power-of-attorney workflow uses the principal’s signature and a notarial acknowledgment.

Nevada’s healthcare power-of-attorney framework allows execution through the applicable notarial or witness procedure stated in the selected form.

Nevada’s declaration concerning life-sustaining treatment uses its own statutory witness requirements.

The customer should not sign any document before the confirmed execution session begins.

Notarizing one document does not satisfy the separate witness requirements of another.

Witnesses Should Be Selected in Advance

When witnesses are required, they should be:

• Adults
• Competent to observe the execution
• Able to remain present during the signing process
• Able to complete their information accurately
• Free from pressure or coercion
• Eligible under the applicable document requirements
• Unlikely to create a conflict concerning healthcare or estate interests

The customer should avoid using beneficiaries as ordinary will witnesses. Nevada law can affect a devise to a subscribing witness unless the will has sufficient additional competent witnesses.

Hospitals and Care Facilities Require Advance Review

Advance review is required when the customer will sign at:

• A hospital
• A skilled-nursing facility
• An assisted-living community
• A residential-care facility
• A rehabilitation facility
• A hospice location
• A memory-care facility
• Another institutional healthcare setting

Facility-based signing may involve:

• Access restrictions
• Clinical scheduling
• Identification issues
• Witness availability
• Agent-eligibility restrictions
• Capacity or communication concerns
• Healthcare-professional certification
• Existing guardianship documents
• Facility policies
• Infection-control or visitor requirements

Lake Mead Mobile Notary cannot require a facility to permit access or override clinical, safety, visitation, or operational decisions.

Capacity and Voluntary Intent

The customer must personally understand:

• That the will controls specified estate instructions after death
• Who will receive property
• Who is being appointed as personal representative
• Who is being appointed as financial agent
• Which financial powers are being granted
• Who is being appointed as healthcare agent
• Which healthcare authority is being granted
• Which treatment instructions are being selected
• When the documents become effective
• The potential consequences of the appointments

Preparation or execution may be paused when:

• The customer cannot explain the documents
• Another person provides every instruction
• The customer appears frightened, pressured, or coerced
• Family members are arguing over the plan
• The customer cannot communicate a clear decision
• The customer appears heavily sedated or medically unstable
• Capacity is disputed
• A proposed beneficiary or agent controls all access to the customer
• The documents conflict with a guardianship or court order
• Material instructions change during execution

Lake Mead Mobile Notary does not diagnose incapacity or issue a legal competency determination.

Existing Documents Must Be Disclosed

Provide copies of any existing:

• Will
• Codicil
• Trust
• Financial power of attorney
• Limited or special-purpose power of attorney
• Healthcare power of attorney
• Living will
• Advance directive
• Psychiatric advance directive
• POLST
• Do-not-resuscitate document
• Deed upon death
• Guardianship order
• Court order
• Attorney-prepared estate plan

Preparing a new package does not automatically resolve every conflict with older documents or remove copies held by agents, providers, institutions, registries, or family members.

Conflicting or highly customized documents may require attorney review.

POLST and DNR Documents Are Not Included

A living will is a legal advance-planning document.

A Provider Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment is a medical order intended for qualifying patients and generally involves an authorized healthcare provider.

A do-not-resuscitate order or identification operates under a separate emergency medical framework.

Lake Mead Mobile Notary does not prepare or issue medical orders.

Nevada Advance Directive Registry

Nevada maintains an Advance Directive Registry through the Nevada Lockbox. The registry electronically stores filed advance-directive documents and makes them available to the registrant and authorized entities under the program’s procedures.

Registry submission is a separate administrative service unless expressly included in the confirmed scope.

Review the Documents After Major Life Changes

The customer should consider reviewing the document package after events such as:

• Marriage
• Divorce or annulment
• Birth or adoption of a child
• Death of a beneficiary
• Death or unavailability of an agent
• Acquisition or sale of substantial property
• Starting or selling a business
• Moving to another state or country
• Creating or terminating a trust
• A major change in health
• A significant change in family relationships
• A change in the customer’s distribution or treatment wishes

Lake Mead Mobile Notary does not provide continuing monitoring or automatically update documents after life changes.

Original Documents and Distribution

After execution, the originals should be protected from loss, destruction, separation, and unauthorized alteration.

The customer should consider:

• Where each original will be stored
• Whether the personal representative knows where the will is kept
• Whether financial agents receive appropriate copies
• Whether healthcare agents receive copies
• Whether physicians and facilities receive healthcare documents
• Whether earlier copies should be replaced
• Whether registry submission is requested
• Whether an attorney or professional custodian should retain originals
• How future amendments or revocations will be handled

Lake Mead Mobile Notary does not provide continuing original-document custody unless a separate written arrangement is established.

Separate Services and Third-Party Costs

The standard preparation scope does not include:

• Legal advice
• Attorney review
• Estate-planning recommendations
• Tax, accounting, investment, or financial advice
• Recommendations concerning beneficiaries
• Recommendations concerning agents
• Recommendations concerning medical treatment
• Trust preparation
• Testamentary trusts
• Special-needs planning
• Business-succession planning
• Asset-protection planning
• Complex disinheritance provisions
• Extensive conditional gifts
• Electronic-will preparation
• Holographic-will review
• Self-proving witness affidavits unless expressly included
• Witness services
• Notarial acts
• Mobile travel or appointments
• Capacity or competency evaluations
• Healthcare-professional certifications
• Psychiatric advance directives
• POLST preparation
• Do-not-resuscitate orders
• Guardianship proceedings
• Court filings
• Deed preparation
• Beneficiary-designation changes
• Registry submission
• Certified copies
• Additional documents for another person
• Long-term document storage
• Translation or interpreter services
• Courier service, postage, or tracked delivery
• Extensive customized provisions
• Revisions outside the accepted scope

Any requested related service must be separately identified and confirmed.

Preparation Does Not Guarantee a Complete Estate Plan or Particular Outcome

Lake Mead Mobile Notary does not guarantee:

• That the package is the most appropriate estate plan
• That probate will be avoided
• That every asset is controlled by the will
• That beneficiary designations and property titles match the will
• That the selected agents are the best choices
• That an agent will act properly
• That every future financial or medical circumstance is addressed
• That family members will agree with the customer’s decisions
• That every bank, provider, facility, court, or agency will accept the documents
• That an institution will not require its own form
• That outdated copies will be disregarded
• That the documents remain appropriate after changes in health, family, residence, finances, or law
• That an improperly completed execution will be accepted
• That additional legal, medical, tax, financial, or estate-planning documents will not be required

The customer remains responsible for the decisions supplied and should obtain professional review whenever the requested plan exceeds the verified standard scope.

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