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And to confuse matters further, it can be 'springing', which means an event has to happen in order for it to be enacted. But a 'springing' one can be activated by the person issuing the POA if they no longer want to handle their affairs.
In my family, a family member now has their durable, POA handle some financial transactions, taxes etc, the 'bigger' things, while continuing to handle their day to day finances, by themselves.
Durable is until death or the person who has assigned a person wants to change their POA to someone else. You should have both financial and medical made up at the same time.
You have a Power of Attorney, do you know if it is for helping your Dad with financial matters, or helping your Dad with medical matters. If it is one of those, then someone else has the POA for the other item.
Was the POA drawn up by an Attorney?