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Arkansas Statutory Durable Financial Power of Attorney Form

Select financial subjects and any separately authorized special powers. The statutory form is immediate unless special instructions change the start date.

Jurisdiction
Arkansas
Purpose
Durable financial
Source / form version
Publisher packet updated June 2025.
Resource format
PDF
Signing
Sign the financial form and complete its notarial acknowledgment. An acknowledged signature has a presumption of genuineness under §28-68-105.
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Sources checked: 2026-11-13. General information, not individual legal advice.

Find the financial form in the packet

The ACLU packet is a collection, not one long power of attorney. The Arkansas statutory financial appointment begins on PDF page 5. Keep its instructions, grant of authority, signature acknowledgment, and agent-duty pages together. Do not assume signing another document in the packet completes this appointment.

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Select powers and backup arrangements

The form allows a primary agent and successors. Initial the ordinary financial subjects you want the agent to handle and consider the separate special powers individually. These additional powers can change gifts, trusts, or how property passes to others. Special instructions are the place to narrow authority or set conditions.

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Sign while able to understand the appointment

Complete the principal’s signature and the form’s notarial acknowledgment. Arkansas law gives an acknowledged signature evidentiary protection; the current execution provision does not impose a general two-witness requirement for this financial appointment. Tell the agent where the complete signed form is kept and review important institutional requirements before it is urgently needed.

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Common questions

Does the financial appointment cover health care?

No. The statutory financial form says it does not grant health care authority. Arkansas’s advance care plan provides a separate way to appoint a medical agent.

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Will the appointment wait until incapacity?

Not automatically. The supplied statutory form is effective immediately unless special instructions say otherwise. Durability and a delayed start are different choices.

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Related forms and guides

Sources and verification

  1. ACLU of Arkansas: source and instructions (opens in a new tab)
  2. Arkansas Code §28-68-105 (opens in a new tab)
  3. Arkansas Act 805 of 2011 — enacted financial POA provisions (opens in a new tab)

HTTP 200; 36-page packet; financial statutory form starts page 5. Primary-publisher packet inspected. Official Arkansas code is served by a separate code provider; signing rule corroborated in code mirror, no claim of statutory review by this website. Official enacted act linked as primary historical legislation; the act date is not represented as current consolidated code.

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