What legal docs should I have my pal fill out?

Post date: 2024-11-28 10:25:06

Someone I know, in their late 50s, lives a very rough life due to lifelong mental illness. They're in an okay place now and will be visiting me shortly, though decades of experience mean I know it's inevitable that they'll take a downturn at some point. While they're here & in a good frame of mind, I was thinking of encouraging/assisting them in filling out some basic legal documents like a living will. What other docs should I encourage? Where can I access them? This person lives in Massachusetts.

Obviously I won't force them to do anything, but it would be handy for me to be able to access parts of their life if/when they have a breakdown. I already assist them with everything I can do remotely, and I am the only person they trust to assist them. FWIW, they have basically zero money and no material assets beyond their meager personal possessions. However, in past cases of breakdowns, for example, they've lost all their personal possessions because I could not reach them inside a hospital and their landlord just trashed everything when they failed to pay rent.

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