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TN · Advance Directive for Health Care
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Tell doctors what care you want and name someone to speak for you if you can't. Legally valid in Tennessee. Free to create, or add secure online document storage with the $29/year subscription.
Tennessee 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 Tennessee.
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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 Tennessee directive
Tennessee's healthcare-directive statute is at Tenn. Code §68-11-1801 et seq. The official form is the Advance Directive 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.
Who can witness your Tennessee directive
I further declare that I am a competent adult; that at least one of the two witnesses to this Advance Directive is not related to the principal by blood, marriage, or adoption and would not be entitled to any portion of the principal's estate upon the principal's death under any will or codicil of the principal existing at the time of this execution or by operation of law then existing; and that the witnesses to this Advance Directive comply with the requirements of Tenn. Code §68-11-1803(b).
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