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Make your Hawaii healthcare directive.
Tell doctors what care you want and name someone to speak for you if you can't. Legally valid in Hawaii. Free to create, or add secure online document storage with the $29/year subscription.
Hawaii 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 Hawaii.
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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 Hawaii directive
Hawaii's healthcare-directive statute is at Haw. Rev. Stat. §327E-1 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 Hawaii directive
Haw. Rev. Stat. §327E-3(c) bars three classes of witness without qualification: a health-care provider, an employee of a health-care provider or facility, and the agent. None of the three is limited to a provider or facility caring for the principal. Under §327E-3(d) at least one of the witnesses must be a single individual who is both unrelated to the principal by blood, marriage, or adoption and not entitled to any portion of the principal's estate under any will or codicil of the principal existing at the time of execution or by operation of law then existing; splitting those two requirements between the two witnesses does not satisfy the subsection. Under §327E-3(b) the directive may be executed either by two qualifying witnesses or by acknowledgment before a notary public at any place within Hawaii, and either path independently satisfies the statute. The separate §327E-3(b) 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, and it does not apply to a person related to the principal by blood, marriage, or adoption.
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