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Minnesota healthcare directive requirements.
Tell doctors what care you want and name someone to speak for you if you can't. Document generation isn’t currently available in Minnesota while we review its rules for online legal document services. The signing requirements below still apply.
Requirements at a glance
What governs a Minnesota directive
Minnesota's healthcare-directive statute is at Minn. Stat. §§145C.01-145C.16. The official form is the 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.
Witness rules for your Minnesota directive
Minn. Stat. §145C.03, subd. 3(a): a health care agent or alternate health care agent appointed in the directive may not act as a witness or as the notary public for its execution. Under §145C.03, subd. 3(b), at least one witness must not be a health care provider providing direct care to the principal on the date of execution, or an employee of such a provider; a person notarizing the directive may be an employee of such a provider. Minnesota imposes no other witness disqualification. Two witnesses neither of whom is such a provider or employee satisfy subd. 3(b) on both signature lines.
Document generation isn’t currently available in Minnesota.