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Tell doctors what care you want and name someone to speak for you if you can't. Legally valid in Mississippi. Free to create, or add secure online document storage with the $29/year subscription.
Mississippi 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 Mississippi.
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Sign and share
Sign with Either two qualified witnesses (with the §41-41-205(2) declarations) OR acknowledgment before a notary public; the witnesses-AND-notary belt-and-suspenders execution is not required by statute. Give a copy to your healthcare agent and your doctor.
What governs a Mississippi directive
Mississippi's healthcare-directive statute is at Miss. Code §41-41-201 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 Mississippi directive
Miss. Code §41-41-205(3): none of the following may be used as a witness for a power of attorney for health care: a health-care provider, an employee of a health-care provider or facility, or the agent. Under §41-41-205(4), at least one witness must be a single individual who is both not a relative of the principal by blood, marriage, or adoption and not entitled to any portion of the principal's estate under any will or codicil existing at execution or by operation of law then existing; the same witness must satisfy both conditions, which cannot be split between the two witnesses. The §41-41-205(2) bar on an owner, operator, or employee of a residential long-term health-care institution at which the principal is receiving care restricts who may serve as agent, not who may witness, unless that person is related to the principal by blood, marriage, or adoption.
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