IC 30-5-5-12 Family Maintenance

• Library: Indiana Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through P.L. 255-2023
• Year: 2023
• Citation: IC 30-5-5-12

(a) Language conferring general authority with respect to family maintenance means the principal authorizes the attorney in fact to do the following:

(1) Perform acts necessary for maintaining the customary standard of living of the spouse, children, and other persons customarily supported by the principal, including the power to provide the following:

(A) Living quarters by purchase, lease, or other contract, or by payment of operating costs, including interest, amortization payments, repairs, and taxes on premises owned by the principal and occupied by the principal's family or dependents.

(B) Normal domestic help for the operation of the household.

(C) Usual vacation and travel expenses.

(D) Usual educational facilities.

(E) Funds for all the current living costs of the spouse, children, and other dependents, including shelter, clothing, food, and incidentals.

(2) Pay for necessary medical, dental, and surgical care, hospitalization and custodial care for the spouse, children, and other dependents of the principal.

(3) Continue provisions made by the principal before or after the execution of the power of attorney for the principal's spouse, children, and other persons customarily supported by the principal with respect to automobiles or other means of transportation, including the power to license, insure, and replace automobiles owned by the principal and customarily used by the spouse, children, or other persons customarily supported by the principal.

(4) Continue charge accounts that have been operated by the principal before or after the execution of the power of attorney for the convenience of the principal's spouse, children, or other persons customarily supported by the principal, open new accounts the attorney in fact considers desirable to accomplish a purpose permitted under this section and pay the items charged on those accounts by a person authorized or permitted by the principal to make charges prior to the execution of the power of attorney.

(5) Continue payments incidental to membership or affiliation of the principal in a church, a club, a society, an order, or other organization and continue contributions to those organizations.