Incapacity of the principal means impairment of the principal by reason of mental or physical illness, deficiency or disability, or the chronic use of drugs or chronic alcoholism or other cause to the extent the principal lacks the ability to govern and manage the principal’s property and personal affairs. “Incapacity of the principal” also means a disability or physical or mental impairment of the principal which is expected to give rise to a need for specialized health, social, and other services, or which makes the principal dependent upon others for assistance to secure these services.

The principal is the maker of the Power of Attorney – the person who is delegating authority to another. This is the person who is allowing someone else to act on his or her behalf.

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Something is subsequent if it follows something else in time, order, or place. Its meaning is very similar to that of following or later, but it has a more formal tone to it and may imply that something not only follows but in some way grows out of or is otherwise closely connected with what precedes it (“their courtship and subsequent marriage”).

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