Financial Powers
A financial power of attorney is terminated if:[1]
- The principal dies;
- The principal becomes incapacitated and the power of attorney is not durable;
- The principal terminates the power of attorney;
- The power of attorney has an end date;
- The purpose of the power of attorney is completed; or
- The agent resigns, becomes incapacitated, or dies without another agent named under the power of attorney.
Medical Powers
An advance directive can be revoked by the principal at any time by:[2]
- Signing and dating a written or electronic instrument of revocation;
- Destroying the physical copies;
- Verbally informing a health care practitioner; or
- Executing a new advance directive.