Colorado Power of Attorney Signing Kit: Colorado's Signing Rules, Signing-Day Sheet, Copies and Recording Log, and an Agent Ledger

Who it is for

Anyone signing a power of attorney in Colorado, the agent who will act under it, and family members helping on signing day. Colorado has a statutory form (Statutory Form Power of Attorney (C.R.S. 15-14-741)); the kit links it and organizes the signing around it.

Not the right fit if

The person signing doesn't live in Colorado, you need the document written (that's a lawyer's job), or there's doubt about capacity or pressure from family. Not a power of attorney form or a legal service.

Why it is different

• Built only from our Colorado power of attorney data file, checked November 2026 against Creating a Power of Attorney (Colorado Judicial Legal Help Center); Session Laws 2009, ch. 106 (HB 09-1198), Uniform Power of Attorney Act (Colorado General Assembly).
• 1 fact isn't stated on those pages, so the kit leaves it out and lists it once to look up, instead of guessing.
• Also from the file: The Legal Help Center says no Colorado statute provides a medical power of attorney form and points to examples from the Colorado Hospital Association and AARP.
• For the estate side in Colorado, the Colorado Executor and Estate Kit: Fair market value of everything the person owned, less liens and encumbrances, by year of death: $82,000 for 2024, $80,000 for 2023, $74,000 for 2022, $70,000 for 2020 and 2021, $68,000 for 2019, $66,000 for 2017 and 2018. The form we read stops at 2024. It can't transfer real estate.

What is inside

• Start here. The 7 confirmed Colorado facts at a glance; to look up on the official page: healthcare power of attorney.
• Colorado signing checklist, financial and healthcare. Step by step in signing order: statutory form: Start from the official form: Statutory Form Power of Attorney (C.R.S. 15-14-741); notary: Notarizing isn't a condition of validity here, but do it anyway; witnesses: The execution section doesn't mention witnesses; agent's acknowledgment: No signed acceptance is required before acting; recording for real estate: The act lets an agent record instruments but doesn't require the power of attorney to be recorded; durable after incapacity: One created on or after January 1, 2010 is durable unless it says incapacity ends it.
• Signing-day sheet. Who has to be there (you, the notary and anyone the lawyer asks for), and their ID.
• After signing: copies, recording and the agent. Recording: The act lets an agent record instruments but doesn't require the power of attorney to be recorded. Agent: An agent accepts by acting or other conduct showing acceptance. Plus a copies log.
• Colorado POA signing tracker (Excel). Signing-day steps with a status, everyone's ID, a copies log and an agent's ledger.
• In Colorado's own words. Notary: "THE PRINCIPAL ACKNOWLEDGES THE SIGNATURE BEFORE A NOTARY PUBLIC" Agent's acknowledgment: "A PERSON ACCEPTS APPOINTMENT AS AN AGENT UNDER A POWER OF ATTORNEY BY EXERCISING AUTHORITY" Durable after incapacity: "IS DURABLE UNLESS IT EXPRESSLY PROVIDES"