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Tell doctors what care you want and name someone to speak for you if you can't. Legally valid in Wisconsin once signed under the Wisconsin signing rules below. Free to create, or add secure online document storage with the $29/year subscription.
Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin.
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Sign and share
Sign in front of 2 adult witnesses. 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 Wisconsin directive
Wisconsin's healthcare-directive statute is at Wis. Stat. §155.01 et seq. The official form is the Power of Attorney for Health Care. Last verified 2026-04. 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.
Living will companion in Wisconsin
In this state, a separate living will document records your end-of-life treatment preferences.
Witness rules for your Wisconsin directive
I further declare that I am not the principal's health care agent, a term that covers both the agent designated in this document and any alternate agent (Wis. Stat. §155.01(4)); that I am not related to the principal by blood, marriage, or adoption and am not the principal's domestic partner under ch. 770; that I am not directly financially responsible for the principal's health care; that I do not have knowledge that I am entitled to or have a claim on any portion of the principal's estate; and that I am not a health care provider serving the principal at the time of execution, an employee of that health care provider other than a chaplain or a social worker, or an employee other than a chaplain or a social worker of an inpatient health care facility in which the principal is a patient (Wis. Stat. §155.10(2)). Each of the two witnesses must satisfy these requirements independently.
Recent Wisconsin directive law changes
Wisconsin allows attorney-supervised remote signing of estate documents
Act 130 lets the witnesses to a will, and the notary for a will, trust, power of attorney, or other estate planning document, take part over a live two-way video call. The signing must be supervised by an attorney licensed in Wisconsin, and the signer, the remote witnesses, and the notary must each attest to being physically located in Wisconsin. A signing without a supervising attorney still needs the witnesses and the notary in the room.
2023 Wisconsin Act 130
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