This special power of attorney will detail the Marine's care plans for minor children in the event of deployment.

As part of their record, dual service parents and single parents must file a special power of attorney on the document side of their OQR/SRB.

What many couples have done instead is to draft stacks of documents - special powers of attorney, wills and guardianship agreements - that always represented a certain degree of wishful thinking, since none of the documents held anything approaching the legal force of a formal adoption.