Healthcare Directive

Oklahoma City Healthcare Directives Attorney

A Useful & Versatile Part of Your Estate Plan

Your Healthcare Directives are actually a set of legal documents. These tools allow you to express your wishes and select a trusted decision-maker if you are very sick. While trusts, wills, and business powers of attorney are designed to take care of your assets, debts, and other affairs, healthcare directives are there to take care of you.

Contact us to draft your healthcare directives today.What Is a Living Will?One of the most important of your healthcare directives is your living will. It is the legal document where you state, in writing, whether you wish to be kept on life support if you are hopeless sick (“terminally ill”) or brain dead (“persistently unconscious”).So, your living will deals with one of the toughest medical decisions your family will ever face. It allows you to make that tough decision and write it down in advance. Doing so avoids placing your family in the position of having to decide whether to remove you from life support.

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What Is The Advanced Directive for Healthcare?

In Oklahoma, your living will is part of your Advanced Directive for Healthcare (the “ADHC”), along with some other provisions. One of these other provisions of your ADHC allows you to pick a person to make the decisions regarding life-support if you prefer to have a person do so at the time it is needed, rather than use your written wishes.

Another section of the ADHC allows you to express detailed wishes about organ donation (“anatomical gifts”). Each of these sections of the document has some flexibility that unfortunately, few people bother to take advantage of in their ADHC.