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The usual:Sign him up with a substantial retainer (promises of rewards in the hereafter do not count) at my special exorbitant hourly rate for deities;Have him sign a Form 2848 Power of Attorney;Ask for the last three years of tax returns;Ask for ALL the correspondence from the IRS, including those envelopes he didn’t want to open.Gosh, I’d like to see their faces at the Power of Attorney processing unit when they get that one!

I once discovered by looking through a court docket and corresponding case files that an individual had filed several lawsuits against me, that had never been served.The suits were eviction suits for failure to pay rent. There were several issues:I had always paid rent in a timely manner directly to the owner of the property.The individual filing the suits was not the owner of the property.The judge rejected the suits before they were served because he/she didn’t accept the power of attorney as valid. The individual who was filing the suits, claimed to have a power of attorney from the owner of the property.In response, I filed a suit against the actual owner of the property, requesting that I pay the rent to the Court, and thereby avoid any questions over whether the rent was paid. An order to that effect was issue by the Court.For me, that was a very odd concept. A suit against your landlord so you could pay your rent! What was even more surprising, is that the Court had a special bank account for those kinds of payments. The bank had a special line for people making those kinds of payments. That was always a very long line! It would always be a minimum of an hour wait!Quite some time later (maybe upwards of a year), I found out that the property had been sold by the same individual who had tried to evict me, using a “power of attorney”.Edit: I should add that was in Costa Rica, and harassment from that individual is what led me to be looking through the court docket.

The same thing that would happen to any other prisoner's assets. He'll probably lose them.The US doesn't make any special provisions for your stuff, unless you've got fines to pay, then kindly Uncle Sam might seize them. If you've got quite a bit of money, you'll probably have people help you manage whatever remains after the trial.For everyone else, the middle class and the poor, I saw the same story over and over again. A guy will sign power of attorney over to his mother/brother/sister/girlfriend/whatever and within a few months, it's gone. Homes are lost to foreclosure, cars repossessed for lack of payment, clothes, guitars, stamp collections, and everything else are put out on the sidewalk by landlords eager to start getting rent again.If a prisoner has bank accounts, 401k’s or other investments, he'll have to give someone power of attorney to deal with them. If robbed blind, what recourse does he have? How could he possibly file civil suit? A simple change of address would be a nightmare to deal with without the help of someone on the outside to do footwork.If the prisoner never gives power of attorney, then the assets will remain until he dies and then be dealt with like any other probate (except that some states might try to claim whatever is there).Make no mistake, for many who go to prison, the time behind bars is a small part of the punishment. The total cost for my tour of duty is approaching one million dollars. I'm surviving, but those most important to me have suffered in ways they're not even aware of yet.