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Tell doctors what care you want and name someone to speak for you if you can't. Legally valid in Louisiana once signed under the Louisiana signing rules below. Free to create, or add secure online document storage with the $29/year subscription.
Louisiana 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 Louisiana.
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Sign and share
Sign in front of 2 adult witnesses. A notary is not required, but notarization is recommended. 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 health care mandatary and alternate health care mandatary you named.
What governs a Louisiana directive
Louisiana's healthcare-directive statute is at La. R.S. 40:1151.1 et seq. The official form is the Living Will 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.
Witness rules for your Louisiana directive
La. R.S. 40:1151.1(15) defines a 'witness' to a Louisiana declaration concerning life-sustaining procedures as a competent adult who is NOT (a) related to the declarant or qualified patient by blood or marriage, or (b) entitled to any portion of the estate of the person from whom life-sustaining procedures are to be withheld or withdrawn upon his decease. The statute does NOT additionally bar persons who hold a claim against the estate. Louisiana states the execution requirement separately: La. R.S. 40:1151.2(A)(2) requires the written declaration to be signed by the declarant in the presence of the two witnesses, and the act names no route by which a witness may instead take the declarant's acknowledgment of a signature already made.
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