Ah. Ok. So this is a wife of a deceased husband, but she was leaving the States for a vacation.  i'm only doing the 2024 return for the husband, but I just was trying to think of any scenario that might come up while she was gone that I may need to take care of.  So I had her sign one as well, and I added that stipulation in as well.  No, I normally do not want signing authority for my clients.  Of course with the deceased husband, we needed a copy of the will giving her authority to sign on his behalf. So I'm not sure I'm going to respond.  I didn't even do a return for her, I was just tryng to be proactive.