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Overview

This Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare and Living Will allows you to appoint an agent to make medical decisions on your behalf when you are unable to do so and to set out your preferences for the receipt or non-receipt of life sustaining medical treatments. The authority granted to your agent will typically only commence when you are unable to make medical decisions on your own behalf.

If you fail to make a durable power of attorney for healthcare, a family member will usually be chosen to make medical decisions on your behalf. These decisions may not be in accordance with your wishes.

This Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare and Living Will is a downloadable form. It comes complete with guidance instructions on how to fill in the form.

If you are not completely familiar with durable powers of attorney for healthcare and living wills, we recommend that you purchase our legal kit entitled “Healthcare Power of Attorney and Living Will Kit”. This legal kit not only contains all the forms necessary for you to make a healthcare power of attorney and living will but also includes a related notice of revocation of a power of attorney as well as detailed information on how powers of attorney and living wills work.

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