Can a family member destroy a letter of incapacitation regarding their father? If they are a licensed medical prof. is it worse?
My sister who is a licensed Nurse Anesthesiologist was handling all my fathers medical affairs while he was coping with terminal brain cancer. His treating Kaiser physician mailed her a letter of incapacitation. Stating " as we discussed your father can no longer make legal and medical decisions. You must invoke the power of attorney. It was discovered she destroyed this letter-and I quote " because she just wanted to take his car keys away and did not like how this sounded" He made two major changes to his estate plan / Trust after this letter that benefit her. Once discovered she denied it, then said it was no big deal. I thought Hippa laws strictly prohibit this type of thing and the trust calls for my father who was trustee to sign off as competent or the POA needs to get another opine