How living wills work

Living wills, often called "Health Care Directive," are documents that express your wishes and desires about your health care treatment if you are unable to communicate with your health care provider. Your living will can speak for you in many circumstances:

• Treatment methods
• "Do not resuscitate" situations
• Burial instructions
• Religious ceremony desires

Your living will can also designate someone to act in your behalf, however this agent is bound to act based upon your instructions in the living will.

Our law firm can draft a living will based upon your desires. A comprehensive living will can sometimes be ten pages long, and we will make sure that it covers all of your instructions, and is also a document you understand. Once signed and properly executed, the living will can come into force one you are incapacitated (or immediately if you wish). Your instructions are then controlling upon your health care treatment, and the person you designate can speak in your interest.

Our law firm drafts living wills that are valid in all states, so no matter where you may be located, our living will be binding. Different states have different requirements for living wills, and living wills drafted by our law firm will be enforceable wherever you may travel.

For more detailed explanation of living wills (Health Care Directive) please read more of the information on this web site, or contact Achtel & Associates online or by phone- (858) 350-3124. We offer a free consultation with our living will package.