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UT · Advance Health Care Directive
Make your Utah healthcare directive.
Tell doctors what care you want and name someone to speak for you if you can't. Legally valid in Utah once signed under the Utah signing rules below. Free to create, or add secure online document storage with the $29/year subscription.
Utah 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 Utah.
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Sign and share
Sign in front of 1 adult witness. A notary is not required, but notarization is recommended. 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 Utah directive
Utah's healthcare-directive statute is at Utah Code §75A-9-101 et seq. (Uniform Health Care Decisions Act). 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.
Witness rules for your Utah directive
Utah Code §75A-9-107(4): the power of attorney for health care must be in a record, signed by the individual creating it, and signed by one adult witness who reasonably believes the individual's act is voluntary and knowing and who is present when the individual signs or represents that the document reflects the individual's wishes. Under §75A-9-107(4)(b) that witness may not be the agent appointed by the individual, the agent's spouse or cohabitant, or, if the individual resides or is receiving care in a nursing home or assisted living facility, an owner, operator, employee, or contractor of that facility; and because the chapter defines agent to include a co-agent or alternate agent (§75A-9-101(3)(b)), an alternate named in the document may not witness it either. Under §75A-9-107(5) a witness counts as present if physically in the same location, or through real-time audio and visual transmission, or through a real-time audio connection where the witness personally knows the individual or can authenticate the individual's identity.
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