Who will represent you if you are no longer able to make judgements due to illness or an accident? Find out how you can continue to determine your own life.
Key points at a glance on legal security
With legal security, you determine in advance what will happen if you lose your ability to judge, or in the event of your death. You name your representative and give that person precise instructions.
Provisions instruments
Advance care directive
Establishment of advance care directive without special conditions
Patient decree
Establishment of patient decree
Will
Establishment of will without special conditions
Living will
Establishment of living will, incl. funeral requests
The advantages of legal security
✔ Self-determination: you can maintain your accustomed life situation and standard of living (no forced admission to a home).
✔ Asset protection:
your assets are managed according to your instructions (no forced sale of your property).
✔ Community:
you can involve your family members and trusted persons.
✔ Support:
you make difficult decisions (e.g. patient decree) for your family members and support them with administrative tasks.
Questions and answers on legal security
With an advance care directive, you appoint a representative for all personal, financial and legal matters in the event of a lack of capacity of judgement.
With a living will you decide self-determinedly what happens in the event of your death.
If you lose capacity of judgement, your relatives cannot automatically take decisions about your legal interests. It is therefore important that you set out your wishes at an early stage in an advance care directive.
I would like to plan my legal security
Pension solutions can be hard to explain – we understand that. It is advisable to obtain advice that is tailored to your specific circumstances.