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2017 Delaware Code
Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations
CHAPTER 49A. DURABLE PERSONAL POWERS OF ATTORNEY ACT
Subchapter I General Provisions
§ 49A-118. Agent's resignation; notice.
Universal Citation: 12 DE Code § 49A-118 (2017)
Unless the personal power of attorney provides a different method for an agent's resignation, an agent may resign by giving written notice to the principal and, if the principal is incapacitated:
(1) To the guardian, if one has been appointed for the principal, and a concurrent agent or successor agent; or
(2) If there is no person described in paragraph (1) of this section, to:
a. The principal's primary caregiver;
b. Another person reasonably believed by the agent to have sufficient interest in the principal's welfare; or
c. A governmental agency having authority to protect the welfare of the principal.
77 Del. Laws, c. 467, § 4; 78 Del. Laws, c. 369, § 5.;
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