Legal Question in Health Care Law in Florida

Re: notarizing

no, they do not.

Re: notarizing

No. But, it does need to be signed with the formalities, required by statute in the state you reside. Usually two witnesses that are not your healthcare providers or employees of your healthcare providers, or a notary.

In Florida, you can have a living will that complies with Fla. Statutes Sec. 765.303 The section requires the attestation of two witnesses other than the spouse or a blood relative.

You can appoint a surrogate under Section 765.202 and 765.203. It requires two subscribing witnesses, neither of which can be the surrogate or healthcare agent, nor a spouse or blood relative.

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Agian, the book is, to my knowledge, the only one written for regular people in the middle class, and it contains in an appendix the Legacy Living Trust Package, which to my knowledge is the only complete fill-in the blanks trust package written in simple English (no Legalese) that will be valid in every State in the US.