Make your Kentucky 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 Kentucky.

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 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.

Who can witness 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). Acknowledgment before a notary public or other person authorized to administer oaths is a complete alternative and requires no witnesses.