Texas Medical Power of Attorney

It is recommended by the Texas Medical Association, that you have a medical power of attorney. The odds are in your life, you can severely injured, sick, or make otherwise unable to own medical decisions regarding the type of medical care and treatment that you want. If this should happen, a medical power of attorney to appoint someone to your values and whom you trust in the medical decisions for you if you do not know.

In Texas, you can ordermore than one agent, even if you are not obligated to do so. The alternative agent (s) may make the same medical decisions as the designated representative, if the agent is unable or unwilling to act on behalf of the patient.

In Texas, the principal / patient, each may appoint their representatives, unless your health care provider, a health-care workers if their provider had a relative of the principal, the principal residential care provider or an employee of the principal institutionsProvider, unless the person is a relative of the principal.

In Texas, a person, a lawyer for the enforcement of a Medical Power of Attorney, although it was able to sit, perhaps not necessary to a lawyer or paralegal with you and assist in the preparation of the forms.

Under a Medical Power of Attorney is granted to an agent broad power to consent to medical treatment on behalf of the client, but an agent may not even have the key to an institution or psychiatric treatment or convulsivePsychosurgery, or an abortion, or consent to the neglect of comfort care.

Can in Texas, notifying either the agent or the principal health care provider orally or in writing, the intention of the contracting authority to revoke the medical power of attorney, revocation of a Medical Power of Attorney occurs. The withdrawal regardless of the ability of the client to make medical care. Even if the client leads to a later Medical Power of Attorney to the state, acancel (void) and the new medical power of attorney is the only legally effective. Another way to get a medical power of attorney can be revoked, if the client is referred to his spouse, agent, principal and agent, if the divorce then the medical power of attorney is terminated (repeals).