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AK · Advance Health Care Directive
Make your Alaska healthcare directive.
Tell doctors what care you want and name someone to speak for you if you can't. Legally valid in Alaska. Free to create, or add secure online document storage with the $29/year subscription.
Alaska healthcare directive requirements
How it works
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Answer a few questions
About your care preferences and who you want making decisions.
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Download your healthcare directive
A complete, personalized document, formatted for Alaska.
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Sign and share
Sign in front of 2 adult witnesses, or in front of a notary instead. Give a copy to your healthcare agent and your doctor.
What governs a Alaska directive
Alaska's healthcare-directive statute is at Alaska Stat. §13.52.010 et seq. The official form is the Advance Health Care Directive. 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.
Who can witness your Alaska directive
Alaska Stat. §13.52.010(d): a witness to a durable power of attorney for health care may not be a health care provider employed at the institution or facility where the principal is receiving health care, an employee of the provider treating the principal or of that institution or facility, or the agent. Under §13.52.010(e) at least one witness must be a single individual who is both not related to the principal by blood, marriage, or adoption and not entitled to a portion of the principal's estate under a will or codicil existing at execution or by operation of law then existing; the same witness must satisfy both conditions, which cannot be split between the two witnesses. Under §13.52.010(b)(1) both witnesses must be personally known by the principal. The §13.52.010(c) bar on an owner, operator, or employee of the health care institution at which the principal is receiving care restricts who may serve as agent, not who may witness, unless that person is related to the principal by blood, marriage, or adoption.
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