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Alabama healthcare directive requirements.
Tell doctors what care you want and name someone to speak for you if you can't. Document generation isn’t currently available in Alabama while we review its rules for online legal document services. The signing requirements below still apply.
Requirements at a glance
What governs an Alabama directive
Alabama's healthcare-directive statute is at Ala. Code §22-8A-1 et seq. The official form is the Advance Directive for Health Care. Your directive is valid the moment it's signed under your state's witness and notary rules above; it only takes effect if your physician determines you can't make or communicate decisions yourself.
Witness rules for your Alabama directive
Ala. Code §22-8A-4(c)(4): a witness to an Alabama advance directive must be at least 19 years of age and must not be (i) the person who signed the directive for the declarant at the declarant's direction, (ii) the designated health-care proxy, (iii) related to the declarant by blood, adoption, or marriage, (iv) entitled to any portion of the declarant's estate under the laws of intestate succession or under any will or codicil of the declarant, or (v) directly financially responsible for the declarant's medical care.
Document generation isn’t currently available in Alabama.