06/01/2026
A bank may reject a valid Power of Attorney to protect itself from liability. Once the account holder has lost capacity, there may be no one the bank can call to confirm that the document is legitimate, so it errs on the side of caution. Sometimes, extreme caution.
In this weekโs article, I explain why valid Powers of Attorney still get rejected, what families can do ahead of time, and why waiting until a crisis can make everything harder.
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