{"data":{"id":"us-dc/d.c.-code-21-2601.10","jurisdiction":"us-dc","citation":"D.C. Code § 21-2601.10","heading":"Termination of power of attorney or agent's authority.","body":"(a)\nA power of attorney terminates when:\n(1)\nThe principal dies;\n(2)\nThe principal becomes incapacitated, if the power of attorney is not durable;\n(3)\nThe principal revokes the power of attorney;\n(4)\nThe power of attorney provides that it terminates;\n(5)\nThe purpose of the power of attorney is accomplished; or\n(6)\nThe principal revokes the agent's authority or the agent dies, becomes incapacitated, or resigns, and the power of attorney does not provide for another agent to act under the power of attorney.\n\n(b)\nAn agent's authority terminates when:\n(1)\nThe principal revokes the authority or revokes the authority relating to real property pursuant to subsection (g) of this section;\n(2)\nThe agent dies, becomes incapacitated, or resigns;\n(3)\nAn action is filed for the dissolution or annulment of the agent's marriage to the principal or their legal separation, unless the power of attorney otherwise provides; or\n(4)\nThe power of attorney terminates.\n\n(c)\nUnless the power of attorney otherwise provides, an agent's authority is exercisable until the authority terminates under subsection (b) of this section, notwithstanding a lapse of time since the execution of the power of attorney.\n\n(d)\nTermination of an agent's authority or of a power of attorney is not effective as to the agent or another person that, without actual knowledge of the termination, acts in good faith under the power of attorney. An act so performed, unless otherwise invalid or unenforceable, binds the principal and the principal's successors in interest.\n\n(e)\nIncapacity of the principal of a power of attorney that is not durable does not revoke or terminate the power of attorney as to an agent or other person that, without actual knowledge of the incapacity, acts in good faith under the power of attorney. An act so performed, unless otherwise invalid or unenforceable, binds the principal and the principal's successors in interest.\n\n(f)\nThe execution of a power of attorney does not revoke a power of attorney previously executed by the principal unless the subsequent power of attorney provides that the previous power of attorney is revoked or that all other powers of attorney are revoked.\n\n(g)\n(1)\nA principal may revoke a power of attorney relating to real property that has been recorded with the Recorder of Deeds by recording an instrument containing the revocation with the Recorder of Deeds.\n(2)\nA revocation of a power of attorney relating to real property does not affect other powers in the power of attorney if the instrument contains a recitation to this effect.","path":["Title 21. Fiduciary Relations and Persons with Mental Illness. [Enacted title]","Chapter 26. Uniform Power of Attorney Act.","Subchapter I. General Provisions."],"source_url":"https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/21-2601.10","current_through":"2026-08-20 (D.C. Law 26-175)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-29T05:44:07Z","sha256":"9c66e5a73a4e3291d913ad65452d9780b96d0709a8dbd64ce2584863744887a6","source_id":"us-dc","stale":false,"prev":"us-dc/d.c.-code-21-2601.09","next":"us-dc/d.c.-code-21-2601.11"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}