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What Is A Health Care Proxy? A Living Will?

By Christopher L. Miller

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A health care proxy is a legal form. It designates an agent to make decisions regarding health care when a person cannot make those decisions due to incompetence or unconsciousness. The form on which this appointment is made is a health care proxy form.

In New York, only one person can serve as your health care agent at one time. You may designate another person to serve if the first agent can not, but they cannot be designated to act at the same time.

A living will is simply (more…)

Full post as published by Res Publicae - The New York Estates Blog on August 20, 2007 (boomark / email).

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