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Signing Requirements
An advance directive must be signed by at least one disinterested witness.[1]
The following persons are ineligible to serve as a witness:
- The principal’s agent
- A person who signed on the principal’s behalf
- The principal’s relative by blood or marriage
- A beneficiary or heir to the principal’s estate or property
- A person who would benefit financially from the principal’s passing
- A person financially responsible for the principal’s health care
- The principal’s healthcare provider or a healthcare facility administrator
Revocation
An advance directive Can be revoked by the principal physically destroying it, writing “void” across the document, or directing a third party to do the same.[2]
The document may also be revoked via written revocation or verbally in front of an adult witness (the same witness requirements apply as when executing the advance directive).
Furthermore, a decree of annulment, divorce, or separation revokes the spouse or partner’s authority to act as an agent.