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3. Choices about treatments, procedures, and end-of-life care.
5. Permanent arrangement often used for asset protection or tax planning.
6. Authority given to someone to make medical choices for you.
7. People or organizations named to receive assets.
10. Legal authority to care for a minor or incapacitated adult.
15. Official witness for signing estate planning documents.
16. Month recognized as Estate Planning Awareness Month.
17. A legal document that directs how property is distributed after death.
18. Specialized service ensuring estate planning documents are signed and explained.
19. Required step for making many wills and powers of attorney legally valid.
20. Person who takes over managing a trust if the origninal trustee cannot.

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1. The feeling estate planning brings when future wishes are documented.
2. Flexible estate planning tool that can be changed during one's lifetime.
4. The overall strategy for distributing assets and handling healthcare choices.
8. A reminder campaign encouraging people to plan in advance.
9. Document expressing medical wishes if you cannot speak for yourself.
11. The proactive act of creating wills, trusts, and healthcare directives.
12. Where wills are validated and estates are settled.
13. Critical element that must appear on wills, trusts, and other estate documents.
14. Legal documents naming someone to act for you in financial or medical matters.