Some things that you should do;Please help me.
1) Yes you should talk to a lawyer to get all your needed paperwork including wills up to date for both you and your husband. It is also important that your paperwork is also in order including plans for someone to take care of your daughter if something happens to you.
2) Make sure that any places like schools and daycare centers have signed permission for someone like a friend or relative to pick up your kid if you get delayed.
3) You should make sure that your husband has given all of his doctors, dentists, etc permission to talk to you about his medical care and make decisions for him if he is unable too. Without that you can run into situations where they may be limited by the HIPPA privacy laws where may not be able to talk to you about his condition.
4) This is important. You need to read up on the Family Medical Leave Act(FMLA) which give you and him certain protections for your jobs. There are lots of details but if you qualify(company has 50+ employees??) for this then you are protected if you need to take 12 unpaid weeks off of work to care for him. If you have not done this already you should do it now just in case you need to suddenly take time off. The 12 weeks does not need to be taken all at once, so if you need to do something like take him in for treatments two days a week you can count those days individually. I used this when my wife was getting treated for a milder form of cancer(She is doing great 17 years later!) and when my mom was in failing health. Even if your employer has been accommodating still get the formal paperwork
Get this paperwork filled out ASAP even if you do not think you need it yet. Companies take this very seriously since they can get into trouble if they violate the FMLA rules after the paperwork is filled out. FMLA does not 100% protect you from something like a layoff but a company will be very cautious about doing something like laying off someone who is has the FMLA paperwork filled out. In my case the HR person I was dealing with and my manager were surprisingly understanding since they had both dealt with a family member who had health problems.
5) Be sure that your taxes get filed by April 15th this year if your husband normally does it. I don't recall the details off the top of my head but there is a form to get an automatic extension through October(?) but you need to file a form to get that.
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