Tennessee Advance Directive Form

A Tennessee advance directive records an individual’s healthcare treatment preferences. If the individual loses capacity and cannot communicate, the document informs medical staff of the individual’s approved treatments and whether an agent has been nominated to make medical decisions for them.

Tennessee Advance Directive Form

A Tennessee advance directive records an individual’s healthcare treatment preferences. If the individual loses capacity and cannot communicate, the document informs medical staff of the individual’s approved treatments and whether an agent has been nominated to make medical decisions for them.

Last updated April 14th, 2024

A Tennessee advance directive records an individual’s healthcare treatment preferences. If the individual loses capacity and cannot communicate, the document informs medical staff of the individual’s approved treatments and whether an agent has been nominated to make medical decisions for them.

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Signing Requirements

Advance directives must be notarized or signed by two witnesses over 18.^[1]

The witnesses cannot be the principal’s agent, and at least one must be:

Unrelated to the principal by blood, marriage, or adoption; and
Not a beneficiary of the principal’s estate.

Advance Directive (Preview)

Tennessee Advance Directive

Revocation

Any expression of an intent to revoke an advance directive, except for an agent’s authority, is valid if the principal has capacity.^[2]

The following actions revoke an agent’s authority:

A principal with capacity executing a written statement of revocation
A principal with capacity personally notifying their healthcare provider
Decrees of annulment, divorce, or separation (if the spouse is an agent)

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