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Date: 09/05/2025

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This Easy Form helps you resign as an agent for power of attorney. It works for property or health care powers of attorney.

This Easy Form does not deliver your resignation letter to your principal. You can download the letter and instructions at the end of the program.

Learn more about ending a power of attorney.

This program will help you make your letter. It will ask questions for you to answer. At the end of the program, you will get a completed letter and instructions. You can save and print them, or the program can email them to you.

Form completion time: 5 minutes to 10 minutes

You will not be able to save your work in the middle of the program.

The interview and forms are in English.

Can I use this program?

To use this program, you must be seeking to resign as an agent for a Power of Attorney.

What do I need first?

To complete this program, you will need to know:

  • The date the Power of Attorney was created, and
  • The date you plan to resign as an agent for the Power of Attorney.

What documents will this create?

  • Instructions
  • Agent resignation letter

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Last full review by a subject matter expert
May 18, 2023
Last revised by staff
February 26, 2025

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Power of attorney for property Easy Form
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Power of attorney revocation Easy Form
A program to help you cancel the power that you gave an agent under a Power of Attorney for Healthcare or Property.

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Power of attorney for property Easy Form
A program to help you complete forms to give someone access to or control over your money and property in Illinois.
Power of attorney for health care Easy Form
A program to help you complete the forms to give another person access to or control of your health care decisions.
Power of attorney revocation Easy Form
A program to help you cancel the power that you gave an agent under a Power of Attorney for Healthcare or Property.

Learn more

Power of attorney for health care
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