CONSTRUCTION IN GENERAL

By executing a statutory durable power of attorney that confers authority with respect to any class of transactions, the principal empowers the attorney in fact or agent for that class of transactions to: (1) demand, receive, and obtain by litigation, action, or otherwise any money or other thing of value to which the principal is, may become, or may claim to be entitled; (2) conserve, invest, disburse, or use any money or other thing of value received on behalf of the principal for the purposes intended; (3) contract in any manner with any person, on terms agreeable to the attorney in fact or agent, to accomplish a purpose of a transaction and perform, rescind, reform, release, or modify that contract or another contract made by or on behalf of the principal; (4) execute, acknowledge, seal, and deliver a deed, revocation, mortgage, lease, notice, check, release, or other instrument the attorney in fact or agent considers desirable to accomplish a purpose of a transaction; (5) with respect to a claim existing in favor of or against the principal: (A) prosecute, defend, submit to arbitration, settle, and propose or accept a compromise; or (B) intervene in an action or litigation relating to the claim; (6) seek on the principal's behalf the assistance of a court to carry out an act authorized by the power of attorney; (7) engage, compensate, and discharge an attorney, accountant, expert witness, or other assistant; (8) keep appropriate records of each transaction, including an accounting of receipts and disbursements; (9) prepare, execute, and file a record, report, or other document the attorney in fact or agent considers necessary or desirable to safeguard or promote the principal's interest under a statute or governmental regulation; (10) reimburse the attorney in fact or agent for an expenditure made in exercising the powers granted by the durable power of attorney; and (11) in general, perform any other lawful act that the principal may perform with respect to the transaction.