Medical Power Of Attorney Texas Statute

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Medical power of attorney texas statute.

Please have your attorney review the law in health and safety code chapter 166. Added by acts 1991 72nd leg ch. Allows an individual including a minor through a medical power of attorney to designate an agent to make health care decisions on that individual s behalf if the individual s doctor certifies that the individual is incompetent to make such decisions. If the medical power of attorney includes an expiration date and on that date the principal is incompetent the power of attorney continues to be effective until the principal becomes competent unless it is revoked as provided by this subchapter.

Texas law now allows an option for a person s signature to be acknowledged by a notary instead of witness signatures and for digital or electronic signatures on the directive to physicians out of hospital do not resuscitate order and the medical power of attorney if certain requirements are met. In texas there are several kinds of powers of attorney that will grant the agent the right to accomplish different things on the principal s behalf. Find a testing site. Except to the extent you state otherwise this document gives the person you name as your agent the authority to make any and all health care decisions for.

This medical power of attorney is an important legal document. A power of attorney is a written document that authorizes someone referred to as the agent to make decisions or take actions on someone else s known as the principal behalf.