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April 2nd, 2009
The Fauquier Circuit Court would not uphold a transfer of real estate to a Trust where the durable Power of Attorney ("PoA") did not include specific powers for estate planning nor that the attorney in fact under the PoA could make herself a beneficiary of the Trust.