If you aren’t mentally capable, the power to make decisions about your care, welfare, and property can be transferred to either:
someone you choose – If you’ve already made a special legal document called an enduring power of attorney (“EPA”), then the person you have chosen to make decisions for you (your “attorney”) can step in to make decisions (see: “How you can choose who might make make decisions for you: Enduring powers of attorney”).
the Family Court, or someone who the Family Court chooses – If you haven’t chosen someone to make decisions for you through an EPA, your loved ones can ask the Family Court to either make decisions for you, or to appoint someone to make decisions for you (see: “When judges and others can make decisions for you”).