Yes, generally you can get a Power of Attorney to assign a lawyer to handle your affairs. One immediate problem with that is you need to find an attorney on con

Yes, generally you can get a Power of Attorney to assign a lawyer to handle your affairs. One immediate problem with that is you need to find an attorney on contingency because you have no money to pay them a retainer. My bigger problem was that due to factors like immigration I had almost nothing in my own name, or my own name alone, and my wife and I were not seeing eye-to-eye.