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Make your Delaware healthcare directive.
Tell doctors what care you want and name someone to speak for you if you can't. Legally valid in Delaware. Free to create, or add secure online document storage with the $29/year subscription.
Delaware 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 Delaware.
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Sign and share
Sign in front of 1 adult witnesses. Give a copy to your healthcare agent and your doctor.
What governs a Delaware directive
Delaware's healthcare-directive statute is at Del. Code tit. 16, ch. 25 §§ 2501-2530 (Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act 2023; 84 Del. Laws c. 467). The official form is the Advance Health-Care Directive. Last revised 2025-09-30. 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 Delaware directive
16 Del. C. § 2508(d) (UHCDA 2023, eff. 2025-09-30): the witness must reasonably believe the principal's act is voluntary and knowing. The witness may not be the agent, the agent's spouse/domestic partner/cohabitant, or (unless related to the principal by blood, marriage, or adoption) an owner, operator, employee, or contractor of a nursing home or long-term care facility in which the principal is a patient or resident. Witnessing may be done in person or by real-time audio-visual transmission (§ 2508(e)).
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