Signing Requirements

Two witnesses or a notary public.^[1] None of the following may act as a witness:

1. The person you have designated as your agent;
2. A person related to you by blood or marriage;
3. A person entitled to any part of your estate after your death under a will or codicil executed by you or by operation of law;
4. Your attending physician;
5. An employee of your attending physician;
6. An employee of a health care facility in which you are a patient if the employee is providing direct patient care to you or is an officer, director, partner, or business office employee of the health care facility or of any parent organization of the health care facility; or
7. A person who, at the time this medical power of attorney is executed, has a claim against any part of your estate after your death.