fbpx
Schedule Your Appointment - Fill Out the Form Below
Skip to content
The Law Office of Antoinette Bone, PLLC
  • Home
  • Practice Areas
    • Estate Planning
      • Estate Planning FAQs
      • Asset Protection
      • Ethical Wills
      • Special Needs Trusts
      • Special Needs Resources
    • Probate
    • Guardianship
  • Our Firm
    • Attorney
    • Speaking Opportunities
    • Firm Overview
  • Getting Started
  • Videos
  • Resources
    • Blog
    • Gallery
  • Contact
  • Careers
817-462-5454

Estate Planning Red Flag: Healthcare Directive

Posted on November 8, 2012 | by ahrenstech

A health care directive allows one to communicate their preferences, in advance, for medical care in the event they’re incapacitated. Directives go by different names, including living wills, advance medical directives and directives to physicians.

Estate Planning Red Flag

You haven’t prepared a health care directive

A health care directive allows you to communicate your preferences, in advance, for medical care in the event you’re incapacitated and cannot express your wishes. Directives go by different names, including living wills, advance medical directives and directives to physicians.

Often, a directive is coupled with a health care power of attorney (sometimes called a durable medical power of attorney or health care proxy). A power of attorney appoints a representative to make health care decisions on your behalf, which may involve interpreting the terms of the directive or addressing situations not expressly covered.

A health care directive provides your physicians and family with instructions regarding life-sustaining medical procedures. It can specify the situations in which procedures — such as CPR and other “heroic measures,” artificial nutrition and hydration, invasive diagnostic tests, and pain medication — should be used or withheld. It may also cover issues such as last rites or other religious observances, organ donation, and handling of the body after death.

Most states have health care directive statutes, which often include model forms. In addition, many hospitals provide health care directive forms for the use of their patients. But these generic forms may not accommodate your preferences and values, particularly your religious views.

To ensure that your wishes are carried out, work with your advisors to design a health care directive that meets your particular needs.

Posted in Advance Directives, Agent for Disposition of Remains, Cemetery Benefits, Declaration of Guardian, Directive to Physicians, Durable Power of Attorney, Elder Law, Estate Planning, Healthcare Planning, HIPAA Release, Instructions for Disposition of Remains, Long-Term Care Planning, Medical Power of Attorney, VA Disability

Post navigation

Medicare Tax on Investment Income
Estate Planning Red Flag: Moving from a community property state to a non-community property state

Categories

Archives

  Thank you for Signing Up

Join Our Newsletter

Please complete this form to create an account, receive email updates and much more.
  Please correct the marked field(s) below.
Contact Email  *
1,true,6,Contact Email,2
First Name 
1,false,1,First Name,2
Last Name 
1,false,1,Last Name,2
*Required Fields

Get In Touch

We believe that your call should be returned within 24 hours.


800 N. Industrial Blvd., Suite 106
Euless, TX 76039

Phone: 682.428.3046
Email: info@abonelaw.com
Driving Directions:

While my address is Industrial Blvd, we are actually on Clinic Drive. Look for the tall red Super Value Pharmacy sign. Whether coming from the North or the South, you will turn off of Industrial Blvd. onto Clinic Dr. Our building is located up the hill just past the Super Value Pharmacy at the far end of the building.

Office Hours

Mon-Thurs8:30am-5:00pm
FriBy Appointment Only
Sat/SunClosed
Leave A Review
© 2023 The Law Office of Antoinette Bone, PLLC | A Website Design by Ahrens Technologies

DISCLAIMER: Material presented on The Law Offices of Antoinette Bone, PLLC website is intended for information purposes only. It is not intended as professsional advice and should not be construed as such. If you communicate with us through this site or otherwise in connection with a matter for which we do not already represent you, your communication may not be treated as privileged or confidential and does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and the firm. If you communicate with us by e-mail in connection with a matter for which we already represent you, please remember that Internet e-mail is not secure and you should avoid sending sensitive or confidential Internet e-mail messages unless they are adequately encrypted.