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NM · Advance Health Care Directive
Make your New Mexico healthcare directive.
Tell doctors what care you want and name someone to speak for you if you can't. Legally valid in New Mexico. Free to create, or add secure online document storage with the $29/year subscription.
New Mexico 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 New Mexico.
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Sign and share
Sign the document. Give a copy to your healthcare agent and your doctor.
What governs a New Mexico directive
New Mexico's healthcare-directive statute is at N.M. Stat. §24-7A-1 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 New Mexico directive
NMSA §24-7A-2(B) requires only that a power of attorney for health care be in writing and signed by the principal. New Mexico does not require witnesses for this directive and imposes no witness-qualification rule: it does not disqualify a witness who is related to the principal, who is a health-care provider or an employee of one, or who stands to inherit under the principal's will or by operation of law. Witness signatures are worth collecting as a precaution, because a provider or facility outside New Mexico may ask to see them. Separately, and as a limit on the agent rather than on any witness, §24-7A-2(B) provides that unless related to the principal by blood, marriage, or adoption an agent may not be an owner, operator, or employee of a health-care institution at which the principal is receiving care.
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