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Make your Kentucky healthcare directive.
Tell doctors what care you want and name someone to speak for you if you can't. Legally valid in Kentucky once signed under the Kentucky signing rules below. Free to create, or add secure online document storage with the $29/year subscription.
Kentucky 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 Kentucky.
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Sign and share
Sign in front of 2 adult witnesses, 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 a Kentucky directive
Kentucky's healthcare-directive statute is at Ky. Rev. Stat. §311.621-311.643. The official form is the Living Will Directive / Health Care Surrogate. 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 Kentucky directive
KRS §311.625(2): none of the following may witness an advance directive, or serve as the notary public or other person authorized to administer oaths taking the acknowledgment: a blood relative of the grantor; a beneficiary of the grantor under the Commonwealth's descent and distribution statutes; an employee of a health care facility in which the grantor is a patient, unless that employee serves as a notary public; the grantor's attending physician; or any person directly financially responsible for the grantor's health care. If the two-witness route is used, both witnesses must sign in the presence of the grantor and in the presence of each other, so serial witnessing does not satisfy §311.625(2). The two witnesses sign the declaration in the Living Will Directive form at §311.625(1), attesting that in their joint presence the grantor, of sound mind and at least eighteen, voluntarily dated and signed the writing or directed it to be dated and signed. Acknowledgment before a notary public or other person authorized to administer oaths is a complete alternative and requires no witnesses.
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