1. Across: A detailed set of instructions indicating your preferences and desires for your personal health care, which may name someone else as your agent to make necessary decisions regarding your health care should you become incompetent, for whatever reason, to do so for yourself. (Two Words)(16 letters)
2. Across: An addition or amendment made to a previously created will. (7 letters)
3. Across: Power given to someone by a document conveying the legal authority to handle someone's financial affairs if they become incompetent. (Two Words) (12 letters)
4. Across: Taxes imposed by states on the beneficiaries of an estate for the right to inherit property. (Two Words) (14 letters)
1. Down: The individuals or entities designated, in a will, to receive benefits. (11 letters)
2. Down: A tax assessed on the right of an individual to transfer property to another at death. (Two Words) (9 letters)
3. Down: The total of all assets or resources left for disbursement to heirs by a deceased person. (6 letters)
4. Down: A legal document created to ensure that assets are transferred to beneficiaries in the desired manner at the death of the asset owner. (4 letters)
5. Down: A legal document which is binding and specifies an individual's wishes as they pertain to medical treatment with life-sustaining equipment should the individual be considered permanently unconscious or unable to make decisions. (6 letters)