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Tell doctors what care you want and name someone to speak for you if you can't. Legally valid in Rhode Island once signed under the Rhode Island signing rules below. Free to create, or add secure online document storage with the $29/year subscription.
Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island.
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Sign and share
Two witnesses OR notary. 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 healthcare agent and alternate agent you named.
What governs a Rhode Island directive
Rhode Island's healthcare-directive statute is at R.I. Gen. Laws §23-4.10-2. The official form is the Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care. 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 Rhode Island directive
R.I. Gen. Laws §23-4.10-2: the durable power of attorney for health care must be signed by two qualified adult witnesses or acknowledged before one notary public. None of the following may be used as a witness: a person designated as agent or alternate agent, a health care provider, an employee of a health care provider, the operator of a community care facility, or an employee of an operator of a community care facility. At least one of the witnesses, or the notary public, must also declare under penalty of perjury that the signer is not related to the principal by blood, marriage, or adoption and is not entitled to any part of the principal's estate under a will now existing or by operation of law; the second witness need not be disinterested. The living-will declaration under R.I. Gen. Laws §23-4.11-3(a) has its own rule and requires two subscribing witnesses who are not related to the declarant by blood or marriage.
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