A Utah medical power of attorney allows you to appoint someone to make healthcare decisions on your behalf. The act when you cannot express your wishes for your medical care on your own. In Utah, this document is called an advance health care directive.
Laws
- Statute: § 75A-3-301 (Advance Health Care Directive Act)
- Signing Requirements: One witness (§ 75A-3-301). The witness should be a disinterested adult who isn’t related to the principal by blood or marriage.
- Revocation: A person can cancel this document via one of these actions: (§ 75A-3-307)
- write “void” on the document
- destroy it with the intention to revoke
- tell someone else to write “void” or destroy it with the intention to revoke
- draft a written revocation that is signed and dated by you or someone you direct to do so
- orally express the intent to revoke to someone 18 years or older who is not a relative, beneficiary, healthcare provider, or an adult who will become an agent under a new advance health care directive
- execute a new form
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