California Advance Healthcare Directive
Create your advance healthcare directive today
State your desires about your healthcare in any situation in which you are unable to make your own decisions and choose who may speak on your behalf.
The agent you name in your healthcare directive has the power to:
- Give approval for or refuse any care or treatment affecting your physical or mental condition
- Choose or fire health care providers and institutions
- Approve or reject tests, surgery, and medication associated with your care
- Direct whether you can receive healthcare such as artificial nutrition or be removed from life support
- Make decisions on donating your organs or authorize an autopsy
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Living Trust Estate Plan Package Includes
Living Trust
Specifies how your property will be managed before and after your death, as well as provides a plan for how those assets, and the income earned by the trust, are distributed after your death.
Pour-Over Will
Works in conjunction with your trust and ensures any remaining assets automatically transfer to a previously established trust upon death.
Certificate of Trust
Used by an acting trustee of a trust to prove to financial institutions or other third parties that they have authority to act on behalf of the trust.
Financial POA
Appoints an agent who may run your business, and all your financial affairs, including but not limited to money management and bill paying — if you are incapacitated and unable to.
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Our simple online interview process can help you save thousands compared to hiring an expensive attorney to prepare your estate plan.
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Our estate plan service includes a custom review of your documents, making sure you didn’t overlook something.
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We use the same estate planning software that many California attorneys use, so you can be confident in your documents.
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Review your information and tell us how quickly you need your documents.
3. Sign and purchase
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Common questions about advance healthcare directive
Doctors evaluate your decision-making based on your ability to understand treatment options and communication of your wishes.
An Advance Healthcare Directive is valid forever, unless you revoke it or state in the form a specific date on which you want it to expire.
The Advance Healthcare Directive has also replaced the Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare (or “DPAHC”) as the legally recognized document for appointing a health care agent in California.
The Advance Healthcare Directive allows you to do more than a DPAHC. An Advance Healthcare Directive permits you not only to appoint an agent, but also to give instructions about your own health care. You can now do either or both of these things.
You can change your advance healthcare directive agent before you are incapacitated. However, you must make this change in writing and tell your healthcare provider. Therefore, while this is an important decision you should take seriously, if you fall out with a previously chosen agent, you can replace them.
The person you choose to be your advance healthcare directive agent may be a family member or a friend.
However, the agent cannot be your doctor or other medical staff that work for that doctor or the health care facility where you live. Note that there is an exception to this restriction if the doctor or medical staff are related to you.
