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Tell doctors what care you want and name someone to speak for you if you can't. Legally valid in Nevada. Free to create, or add secure online document storage with the $29/year subscription.
Nevada 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 Nevada.
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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 Nevada directive
Nevada's healthcare-directive statute is at Nev. Rev. Stat. §162A.855 (the Advance Health-Care Directive form, added 2023; §162A.715 defines an advance health-care directive to mean a power of attorney for health care), §162A.790 (execution and witness rules) and §§449A.400 to 449A.481 (Nevada's living will / end-of-life decisions component; §449A.433 contemplates the combined healthcare-POA / living-will form). 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 Nevada directive
Nev. Rev. Stat. §162A.790(2) requires only that the principal's signature be acknowledged before a notary public or witnessed by two adult witnesses. The single statutory disqualification is in §162A.790(3): neither witness may be the owner, operator, or employee of a nursing home if the principal resides in that nursing home. Nevada does not otherwise disqualify a health care provider, an employee of a provider or facility, a relative of the principal, or an heir from serving as a witness. Two disinterested adults who are not the agent, not the attending physician or an employee of the principal's provider or facility, not related to the principal, and not entitled to any portion of the estate remain sound practice, because a witness with no stake in the outcome is harder to challenge, but §162A.790 does not require it.
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