Limited Power of Attorney - Massachusetts
LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY — MASSACHUSETTS
Before you use this: Complete the transaction, authorized acts, property, amount limit, and end time before signing. For a real-estate conveyance, attach the legal description and coordinate acknowledgment and recording with the registry of deeds. This form does not authorize a transaction involving registered land.
1. Principal and attorney in fact
I, [PRINCIPAL FULL LEGAL NAME], of [ADDRESS], appoint [ATTORNEY IN FACT FULL LEGAL NAME], of [ADDRESS], as my attorney in fact only for the transaction stated below.
2. Limited authority
Specific transaction and counterparty: [DESCRIBE]
Acts my attorney in fact may perform and documents my attorney in fact may sign: [LIST EACH ACT AND DOCUMENT]
Property, account, or asset: [IDENTIFY; ATTACH LEGAL DESCRIPTION IF REAL ESTATE]
Maximum payment, receipt, or commitment: $[AMOUNT / NONE]
Additional conditions: [DESCRIBE / NONE]
My attorney in fact may communicate with the stated counterparty and obtain records only as reasonably needed for the listed acts. No blank description grants authority. This power does not extend to any other transaction, property, or person. A conveyance of real estate is authorized only if its exact act and property are identified above.
3. Authority withheld
My attorney in fact may not make gifts; create, amend, or revoke a trust; change a beneficiary or survivorship designation; make a disclaimer; delegate this authority; transfer my property to the attorney in fact; make health-care decisions; make, amend, or revoke a will; or transact concerning registered land. None of these powers arises from a general phrase in this document.
4. Durability, effective period, and termination
This power of attorney shall not be affected by subsequent disability or incapacity of the principal, or lapse of time.
This power takes effect when I sign it. It ends upon completion of the stated transaction and, in every event, no later than [DATE AND TIME, INCLUDING TIME ZONE]. I may revoke it sooner. Death also ends my attorney in fact's authority, subject to the good-faith reliance protection in M.G.L. c. 190B, § 5-504. I will notify my attorney in fact and affected third parties promptly of a revocation; for a real-estate transaction I will arrange any recording needed under that section. This document does not revoke another power unless I identify it here: [PRIOR POWER TO REVOKE / NONE].
5. Attorney in fact's undertaking
If my attorney in fact acts, that person will follow my instructions, act only within the authority granted here, avoid using my property for personal benefit, and keep records of actions and funds handled for me.
6. Principal's signature
I sign this limited power of attorney voluntarily on [__/__/____] at [CITY, MASSACHUSETTS].
Principal's signature: ____________________________________
Printed name: [PRINCIPAL FULL LEGAL NAME]
7. Notarial acknowledgment
On this [____] day of [MONTH], [YEAR], before me, the undersigned notary public, [PRINCIPAL FULL LEGAL NAME] personally appeared, proved to me through satisfactory evidence of identification, which was [IDENTIFICATION EVIDENCE], to be the person whose name is signed on this document, and acknowledged to me that the principal signed it voluntarily for its stated purpose.
Notary public's official signature: ____________________________________
Printed name: [NOTARY NAME] Commission expiration: [DATE]
Official seal: [SEAL]
8. Attorney in fact's receipt (optional)
I acknowledge receipt of this document and agree to its stated limits.
Attorney in fact's signature: ____________________________________ Date: [__/__/____]
Sources and References
- Massachusetts General Laws c. 190B, §§ 5-501, 5-504, and 5-505.
- Massachusetts General Laws c. 183, §§ 29 and 32 and c. 222, § 15(b).
About this template
- Last updated
- October 4, 2026
- Citations checked
- November 9, 2026
- Jurisdiction
- Massachusetts
- Category
- Estate Planning & Wills
Legal authority
- M.G.L. c. 190B, § 5-501 (durable power and stated termination time)
- M.G.L. c. 190B, § 5-504 (notice of death and revocation)
- M.G.L. c. 190B, § 5-505 (expiration or specified event)
- M.G.L. c. 183, § 29 (recording requires acknowledgment certificate)
- M.G.L. c. 183, § 32 (deed acknowledgment and recording rules govern real-estate letters of attorney)
- M.G.L. c. 222, § 15(b) (individual notarial acknowledgment)
Estate planning documents decide what happens to your property, your children, and your medical care when you cannot make those decisions yourself. Wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and health care directives each serve different purposes and each have to meet state law requirements for signing, witnessing, and notarization. A document that looks fine on the page but was not executed correctly can be rejected in probate, which is exactly when it is too late to fix.
Not legal advice
This template is provided for informational purposes. We recommend having an attorney review any legal document before signing, especially for high-value or complex matters.
Checked against the law it cites
A reviewer verified this template's legal citations against the official source on November 9, 2026.
M.G.L. c. 190B, § 5-501(a) (checked November 9, 2026): "A durable power of attorney is a power of attorney by which a principal designates another his attorney in fact in writing and the writing contains the words ''This power of attorney shall not be affected by subsequent disability or incapacity of the principal, or lapse of time,''"
M.G.L. c. 190B, § 5-504(a), (c) (checked November 9, 2026): "No revocation by a principal under a written power of attorney, durable or otherwise, shall revoke or terminate the agency as to the attorney in fact or other person who, without actual knowledge of the revocation, acts in good faith under the power or relies in good faith on acts under the power."
M.G.L. c. 190B, § 5-505 (checked November 9, 2026): "This section shall not affect any provision in a power of attorney for its termination by expiration of time or occurrence of an event other than express revocation or a change in the principal's capacity."
M.G.L. c. 183, § 29 (checked November 9, 2026): "No deed shall be recorded unless a certificate of its acknowledgment or of the proof of its due execution, made as hereinafter provided, is endorsed upon or annexed to it, and such certificate shall be recorded at length with the deed to which it relates"
Draft your Limited Power of Attorney in the editor
Answer a few questions, let the AI editor draft each section from your answers, review it, and download Word and PDF. $99 one time, or $249 per month for every document and every Ezel app.