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Health Care Directive with Optional Health Care Directive Statutory (New Mexico)

This form allows you to give instructions about your own health care, to name someone else to make health-care decisions for you and to designate a physician to have primary responsibility for your health care. An adult or emancipated minor has the right to make his or her own health-care decisions and to provide instructions regarding the same either orally or in writing through this form. An adult or emancipated minor may execute a power of attorney for health care, which may authorize an agent to make any health-care decision the principal could have made while having capacity. The power must be in writing and signed by the principal and remains in effect notwithstanding the principal's later incapacity under the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act. The power of attorney may include individual instructions. (more...)


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