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Signed Electronically Advance Directive Feature

Ensure your healthcare wishes are respected with our Signed Electronically Advance Directive feature. This innovative tool allows you to create, sign, and store your advance directive documents securely online. You gain control over your medical preferences and make them easily accessible to your loved ones and healthcare providers.

Key Features

Create and customize advance directives to reflect your medical wishes

Sign documents electronically for convenience and security

Store documents in a secure online platform, accessible anytime

Easily share directives with healthcare providers and family members

Potential Use Cases and Benefits

Individuals planning for future healthcare decisions

Families wanting to clarify medical preferences

Healthcare providers needing quick access to patient directives

Legal professionals assisting clients with advance care planning

This feature solves the problem of uncertainty in medical care by allowing you to document your preferences comprehensively. With just a few clicks, you can ensure that your healthcare decisions are clear and easily communicated. Take control and find peace of mind knowing your wishes are documented and available when needed.

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Use the toolbar at the top of the page and choose the Sign option.

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Click on the form area where you want to put an Signed Electronically Advance Directive. You can move the newly created signature anywhere on the page you want or change its settings. Click OK to save the adjustments.

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What can you do with an advance directive?

An advance directive is meant to help you plan ahead and let others know what kind of care you want. It is used to guide your loved ones and health care team in making clear decisions about your health care if you can't make medical decisions by yourself.

Is an advance directive required?

Federal law does not require individuals to complete any form of advance directive (and nor do state laws), and it expressly forbids requiring an advance directive as a requisite for treatment.

How do you create an advance directive?

Review and complete the Advance Health Care Planning: Making Your Wishes Known Booklet. Complete An Advance Health Care Directive Form. Give a copy to your doctor, power of attorney and family. If necessary, complete a Provider Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POST) Form.

How much is an advance directive?

Those fees can range from $1,000 to $2,500 or more and depend on what is included in the attorney's services. For just an advance directive, attorneys may charge an hourly fee or a flat rate, and that could range from around $100 or more, on average.

Who can notarize an advance directive?

Whether your home state calls for an official notarization by a notary public, every state in the U.S. requires your advance directive to be signed by witnesses. Some states require both witnesses and notary public to sign advance directives.

Does medical power of attorney have to be notarized?

Many but not all states require healthcare powers of attorney to be notarized. If you are asked to notarize a healthcare power of attorney, check with your Notary-regulating office, the Attorney General's office or Department of Health for any specific document signing restrictions.

How do I file an advance directive?

Get the living will and medical power of attorney forms for your state, or use a universal form that has been approved by many states. Choose a health care agent. Fill out the forms, and have them witnessed as your state requires.

Does an advanced health care directive need to be notarized?

Advance Health Care Directive Must be signed by two witnesses or notarized. If you choose to have the document witnessed, neither of your witnesses may be: under the age of 18. Your health care agent.

Do you need a lawyer for an advance directive?

Advance directives are legally valid throughout the United States. While you do not need a lawyer to fill out an advance directive, your advance directive becomes legally valid as soon as you sign them in front of the required witnesses. One state's advance directive does not always work in another state.

Does a healthcare power of attorney need to be notarized in California?

If you are authorizing your agent to handle real estate matters, it should be notarized so that it can be recorded. A health care power of attorney must be signed by the principal before two witnesses, and the two witnesses must also sign the document.

How do I get a medical power of attorney in California?

Getting POA Documents in California You sign the document first in their presence, followed by them. The witnesses or notary needs to be someone who is not your agent/attorney-in-fact, health care provider, employee of your health care provider, or otherwise related to anyone giving you medical treatment.

How do I get medical power of attorney?

Step 1 Select Your Agent. The Agent that you select will have the responsibility of making your decisions based on your health care situation. Step 2 Agent's Decisions. The decisions you give your agent related to your health care is up to you. Step 3 Attach a Living Will. Step 4 Sign & Complete.

Does a health care directive need to be notarized?

Answer. Depending on your state, you must either have your health care directive signed by two witnesses or notarized by a notary public -- and in some cases, both.

How do I set up a healthcare directive?