Map the family & POA. Who has authority for what
Rung 2 of 10 · Comparison matrix
1 · Learn the move · Comparison matrix
When adult children and a power-of-attorney agent are all involved in an older client's sale, the deal stalls, or goes wrong. If it's unclear who can actually authorize what. A comparison matrix lays every party in one table against the same columns: their role, what they're claiming they can decide, and what has to be confirmed before you rely on it. The discipline is that AI FLAGS the authority and capacity questions, is the POA valid and does it cover real-estate sales, does the owner have capacity to sign. It never RESOLVES them; those go to an elder-law attorney and are the agent's job to document, never to assume.
Build a party matrix for this sale, owner, adult children, POA agent. With columns for role, what they claim they can decide, and what I must confirm before relying on it. Flag every authority/capacity question and route it to an elder-law attorney; resolve none. UNKNOWN wherever authority isn't documented.
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
You're helping sell an older client's home. The client is present but her daughter says "I have power of attorney, so I'll handle the signing," a second adult son is emailing you with his own opinions, and you've never seen the POA document or confirmed it covers real-estate transactions. Write a prompt that maps who's who and who can authorize what. And flags, without resolving, the authority and capacity questions.
Remember: the AI sees only your prompt, not this page. If the situation isn't in your prompt, it doesn't exist.
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