state living will and advance directives laws

State Living Will and Advance Directives Laws

Here you will find state living will and advance directives laws, the actual statutes of each state, that provide the authority for your right to execute a living will and other advance directives:

see 22-8A-4

HAWAII
see also Section 327E-3

KANSAS (enter "65-28,101" in search) Relevant sections are through 65-28,109

KENTUCKY ( scroll to .621 through .644)

LOUISIANA (1299.58.1 through 1299.58.10)

MAINE

MARYLAND

MASSACHUSETTS (search "health care proxy"--no statutory provision for living will)

MICHIGAN -no statutory provision for a living will, but see 700.5506(4). Search "patient advocate"-Sec. 700.5506 et seq.
More on Michigan

MINNESOTA

MISSISSIPPI (search "living will")

MISSOURI

MONTANA
also search" 50-9-201" et seq

NEBRASKA--see 20-401 to 20-416

Search statutes, Chptr 24 Health & Safety; Section 24-7-1 through 11; 24-7 A1-through 18.

NEW YORK

NORTH CAROLINA

NORTH DAKOTA scroll to Uniform Rights of Terminally Ill Act 23-06.4 (through 23-06.4-14)

TENNESSEE click Tennessee Code, then search 32-11-101, through 32-11-113

TEXAS

UTAH scroll to 75-2-1101 through 1119

VERMONTsearch "Part 10, Section 9701"

VIRGINIA

WASHINGTON

WEST VIRGINIA

WISCONSIN scroll to Section 154 on left

WYOMING

State laws may, to a nonlawyer, seem to read the same. But, while similar, each living will law is particular in its definition of terms, and application to specific circumstances. It is further intended for use by its residents.

Looking at Connecticut's laws, as an example, after the debacle of Terri Shiavo's plight, it is questionable, at best, had Terri Schiavo had the Connecticut living will, that it would have been enough to quell the controversy.

Notice that the Connecticut statutory form does not "speak" as the form is written, if you might be minimally aware or minimally conscious, in a state of severe brain damage.

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