STATE OF LOUISIANA PARISH OF
DURABLE POWER OF ATTORNEY PROCURATION
BY:
TO: By this instrument of procuration be it known that on this __ day of _________, 200__, before me, a notary public, in and for the Parish and State stated above, duly commissioned and sworn, personally came and appeared: ____________________________ over the age of 18 and a resident of _______________________________ Parish, who declared that principal does make, nominate, ordain, authorize, constitute and appoint, and in principal's place and stead, depute and put ______________________________, to be principal's true and lawful attorney-in-fact, general and special, giving and granting to the attorney full power and authority for principal and in principal's name and behalf, and to principal's affairs, business and concerns of any nature or kind, without any exception or reservation; to open all letters of correspondence addressed to principal and answer the same; to access safe deposit boxes; to sign tax returns, Internal Revenue Service powers of attorney and to settle tax disputes; to deal with retirement plans, including individual retirement accounts, rollovers and voluntary contributions; to fund inter vivos trusts; to borrow funds to avoid forced liquidation of assets, to deal with all life and health insurance; to enter into buy or sell agreements, to forgive and collect debts; to settle, pursue and appeal litigation on behalf of principal; to collect all funds and amounts due principal; to qualify principal for all government entitlements including Medicaid, Medicare and Supplemental Social Security; to make and endorse promissory notes in the name of principal and draw, endorse and accept bills of exchange; to make checks and draw money out of any bank or banks where the same may have been deposited in the name, or for account of principal; to deposit drafts, bills of exchange, acceptances and promissory notes or other obligations, for collection in any bank or banks; and withdraw the same or the amount of the same, at pleasure, by check, or otherwise; to sell and transfer all or any shares of the capital stock of any bank or banks or other corporate body or bodies owned by principal and receive and take receipt for the dividends due or to become due on the shares; to
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pledge and pawn all or any shares of the capital stock of any bank or banks, or other corporate body or bodies, owned by the principal and to make and give any note or notes, which may be necessary from time to time for the renewal of the same; to attend all or any meetings of creditors in which the principal may be interested, and vote in principal's name on all questions and cases that may be submitted to the meeting, to attend all or any meetings of the stockholders or any bank or banks, or other corporate body or bodies, the principal, may be interested, and vote in the name of principal on all questions and cases that will or may be submitted at the meeting; to borrow money from any bank or banks, or other moneyed institution or institutions on the notes or obligations of the principal, drawn by principal or by the attorney or those of others which will or may come into the hands of the attorney for the use of the principal and make other notes or obligations from time to time for the renewal of all or any part or parts of the same; to sell, donate, transfer and conveyor to mortgage and effect all or any part or parts of the real, personal or mixed estate of the principal and to receive the price of the same, also to purchase real, personal and mixed estate in the name of the principal, on such terms and conditions as the attorney will think fit, and to lease, let or hire all or any part of the real estate belonging to the principal and receive and take receipt for the rent and wages as they fall due, and for the full execution of the purposes mentioned above, to make, sign and execute in the name of the principal all acts, whether of sale, mortgage, lease, release, donation, contract, compromise, covenant, deed, agreement or otherwise, that will or may be requisite or necessary, and bind the principal, as firmly as if the same were or had been principal's own proper acts and deeds; to sign all bonds or other acts required by the revenue department at the custom house of this district, or elsewhere, and do all custom house business; to receive and attend to all shipments or consignments of produce, goods, wares or merchandise, that will or may be made to principal, either for principal's own account and risk, or that of others, and to pursue the instructions of the owners, shippers, or others interested parties, relative to same; to receive and acknowledge notices of protest of all or any bills, drafts, or promissory notes, to which the principal may be a party, and to act for the principal and be principal's substitute in all cases in which principal may be appointed the agent or attorney of others; and to ask, demand, have, take, and by all lawful ways and means to recover and receive of and from all and every person and persons, body or bodies corporate, all and every amount of money, goods, debts, property and effects, as now is, or are or may in the future be in
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principal's or their custody or possession, due, owing, coming, or belonging to principal, whether by bonds, bill, note, book-debt, account, consignment, bequest, or for and by what other reason or means; and to that end with whom it may concern, to adjust and settle all accounts, and on recovery and receipt in the premises to make and give good and sufficient discharge and acquittance; to appear before all courts of law and equity, there to do, prosecute and defend as occasion will require, or to compromise, compound and agree in the premises, by arbitration or otherwise, as the attorney will in agent's discretion think fit; also to apply for and obtain all and any attachments, sequestrations, injunctions and appeals, give the requisite security and sign the necessary bonds; and to act as curator of principal's person or property, or both and to serve in that capacity should principal be interdicted, as provided in Article 4561 of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure; to represent principal, judicially and otherwise, whether as heir, legatee, creditor, executrix, administrator or otherwise, in all successions or estates in which appearer may be or become interested, including any acceptance or renunciation of the same; to apply for the administration of the succession or estate and to demand, obtain, and execute all orders and decrees as agent may deem proper; to settle, compromise, and liquidate any interest of principal, and to receive and take receipt for all property to which principal may be entitled in respect of the successions or estates; and generally to do and perform all and every other act, matter and thing, as will or may be requisite and necessary, touching or concerning the affairs, business and concerns of the principal as fully, amply and effectually, and to all intents and purposes with the same validity, as if all and every act, matter or thing, were or had been particularly stated, expressed, and especially provided for, or as principal could or might do if personally present; also with full power of substitution and revocation; and the principal agrees to ratify and confirm all that the attorney will lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this act of procuration. In addition to, and without limiting the preceding, principal provides that the rights, privileges, and powers of attorney granted will not terminate on the principal's incapacity, physical or mental disability, or other conditions making express revocation, impossible or impractical. Principal will indemnify the agent and any successor who will so act, against any and all claims, demands, losses, damages, actions and causes of action, including expenses, costs, and reasonable attorney's fees which the agent at any time may sustain or incur in connection with carrying out the authority granted to agent in this procuration.
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Thus done and passed, at the Parish and State mentioned above, in the presence of ________________________________ and ____________________________, witnesses, who sign their names along with the principal,
________________________, and me the notary.
Witnesses:
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______________________________
______________________________
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