Make your Arizona healthcare directive.

How it works

1. 1

   Answer a few questions

   About your care preferences and who you want making decisions.

2. 2

   Download your healthcare directive

   A complete, personalized document, formatted for Arizona.

3. 3

   Sign and share

   Sign in front of 1 adult witness, or in front of a notary instead. Not everyone can witness it, so read the witness statement on the document before you choose. Give a copy to your doctor and to any healthcare agent and alternate agent you named.

What governs an Arizona directive

Arizona's healthcare-directive statute is at Ariz. Rev. Stat. §36-3221 et seq. (§36-3201 contains definitions; §36-3221 is the execution statute; §36-3224 provides the sample form). The official form is the Health Care Power of Attorney. 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 Arizona directive

A.R.S. §36-3221(C): neither a notary nor a witness may be a person designated to make medical decisions on the principal's behalf, or a person directly involved with the provision of health care to the principal at the time the health care power of attorney is executed. Under §36-3221(A)(3) the document may be notarized or witnessed in writing by at least one adult. Under §36-3221(D), where it is witnessed by only one person, that witness also may not be related to the principal by blood, marriage, or adoption and may not be entitled to any part of the principal's estate by will or by operation of law at the time of execution.