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Tell doctors what care you want and name someone to speak for you if you can't. Legally valid in Wyoming once signed under the Wyoming signing rules below. Free to create, or add secure online document storage with the $29/year subscription.
Wyoming 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 Wyoming.
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Sign and share
Sign in front of 2 adult witnesses, or in front of a notary instead. 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 Wyoming directive
Wyoming's healthcare-directive statute is at Wyo. Stat. §35-22-401 et seq. 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 Wyoming directive
Wyo. Stat. §35-22-403(c): none of the following may be used as a witness for a power of attorney for health care: a treating health care provider or an employee of that provider, the attorney-in-fact nominated in the writing, the operator of a community care facility or an employee of that operator, or the operator of a residential care facility or an employee of that operator. Wyoming imposes no other witness restriction: it does not disqualify a witness who is related to the principal, who is an heir at law or entitled to a portion of the principal's estate, or who is directly responsible for the principal's medical or living expenses. Under §35-22-403(b) the durable power of attorney may be executed either by acknowledgment before a notarial officer or by at least two witnesses, and the §35-22-403(b) bar on an owner, operator, or employee of a residential or community care facility at which the principal is receiving care restricts who may serve as agent, not who may witness, unless that person is related to the principal by blood, marriage, or adoption.
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