Make your Arkansas 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 Arkansas.

3. 3

   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 Arkansas directive

Arkansas's healthcare-directive statute is at Ark. Code §20-6-101 et seq. (Arkansas Healthcare Decisions Act) and §20-17-201 et seq. The official form is the Declaration. 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 Arkansas directive

Under Ark. Code §20-6-103(c)(2), each witness must be a competent adult who is not the agent, and at least one of the two witnesses must be a person who is not related to the principal by blood, marriage, or adoption and who would not be entitled to any portion of the principal's estate upon the principal's death under any will or codicil made by the principal existing at the time of execution or by operation of law. Ark. Code §20-6-103(c)(3) requires a witnessed advance directive to contain an attestation clause that the witnesses comply with that subsection; the declaration each witness signs and the ADDITIONAL STATEMENT OF WITNESSES on the directive are that attestation. This document also asks that neither witness be the alternate agent, which is its own recommendation rather than a requirement of the Act.