Power of Attor­ney and liv­ing will for a slave.   These are not sub­jects that many want to think about in a Master/slave rela­tion­ship.  But being a good Mas­ter means you con­sider and han­dle such issues.   The slave girl is your respon­si­bil­ity and this is part of proper slave man­age­ment & care.

The power of attor­neys and will are more impor­tant for a 24/7 slave than some­one you occa­sion­ally see.  In fact, I would not rec­om­mend them if you don’t live with her.

slave’s will and POA

Remem­ber that legal rights are not laid out in a Master/slave con­tract. A slave con­tract is NOT legally bind­ing only morally bind­ing between the par­ties.  You must have proper legal doc­u­ments to exer­cise legal rights over her affairs. Don’t believe a slave con­tract will acts as a will or power of attor­ney,  it will not.   I would not rec­om­mend that you try to include a power of attor­ney or will in your slave con­tract.  A power of attor­ney should be a sep­a­rate doc­u­ment unclouded with the con­di­tions set forth in a usual slave con­tract.  Keep it sim­ple and easy for a court to enforce if needed.    If you have to get the power of attor­ney enforced by a Court keep it sim­ple and near what the Court is use to see­ing and enforc­ing.   Why com­pli­cate it for your­self or the Court?   When you need it enforced you prob­a­bly don’t have time to dis­cuss unre­lated issues in the slave con­tract.  Don’t take a chance on void­ing the power of attor­ney. liv­ing will or will by includ­ing them in an oth­er­wise unen­force­able doc­u­ment.  Keep them separate.

Power of Attor­ney, liv­ing will & Will grant­ing a Mas­ter the legal author­ity to make deci­sions for his slave:

Durable and med­ical power of attor­neys (POA)

There are two types of power of attor­ney that should be con­sid­ered for a slave to sign grant­ing her mas­ter legal author­ity. The 1) durable power of attor­ney and the 2) power to han­dle med­ical issues.

A “durable power of Attor­ney” aka endur­ing power of attor­ney grants broad author­ity to act upon behave of the slave in legal and finan­cial mat­ters.  This includes author­ity to make deci­sions for her about both real and per­sonal prop­erty.  The durable power of attor­ney con­tin­ues to be in effect even if the slave later suf­fers a men­tal ill­ness or phys­i­cal injury ren­der­ing her inca­pable of act­ing on her own behalf. My advice is to make sure you have a durable power of attor­ney instead of a reg­u­lar POA because a reg­u­lar POA becomes void if the one autho­riz­ing it (your slave) become men­tally or phys­i­cally unable to act on their own accord.

Note that any POA can be can­celled any time by the par­ties.  You can’t write a POA deny­ing the slave the right to can­cel it in the future.   The POA would not be enforce­able if you added that to it.

Some real and per­sonal prop­erty can be signed directly over to a Mas­ter instead of using a POA but a POA is still a good idea because of the broad author­ity it grants.  This becomes impor­tant if she becomes ill or is not around for some reason.

Med­ical power of attor­ney aka advance health care direc­tive or liv­ing will gives her mas­ter the author­ity to make impor­tant med­ical deci­sions on her behalf if she becomes ill and  request infor­ma­tion about her con­di­tion from the med­ical staff and doctors.

Also a Mas­ter should be listed as some­one able to receive med­ical infor­ma­tion from her doc­tors office.   That per­mis­sion is usu­ally granted by her in the usual paper­work sub­mit­ted to a doctor’s office.  That should be updated in the records for each doc­tor your slave uses.  The Mas­ter should be listed as the con­tact­ing party in case of emer­gency if she lives with you.   Again this is all part of proper slave management.

Will for real and per­sonal property

In addi­tion a slave should have a  “Will”  estab­lish­ing the master’s rights over her prop­erty in the event of her death.   This will clar­ify the dis­tri­b­u­tion of her assets in event of her passing.

POA end at that death of one of the par­ties so a will is needed to han­dle affairs after a death.

POA and Will for a Master

A Mas­ter should also con­sider grant­ing some­one power to act on his behalf if he become men­tally or phys­i­cally escapable of act­ing for him­self. He should also con­sider doc­u­ment­ing  his wishes for  the dis­tri­b­u­tion of his prop­erty after his death.  For this he also needs a will.   A mas­ter may  some­time need care as well.    Make these deci­sions before­hand and have the nec­es­sary legal require­ments already handled.

note:

I am not an attor­ney and have no spe­cial exper­tise in wills or pow­ers of attor­ney so proper legal advice should be sought first. If you wish you can research and find exam­ples of both on-line but the best bet is to seek an attor­ney with knowl­edge in these areas for the loca­tion where you live.  There is a dif­fer­ent in require­ments betweens States or Coun­tries.   In my opin­ion, local legal advice is best.