Financial Powers
A financial power of attorney is canceled if:[1]
- The principal dies;
- The principal becomes incapacitated and the power of attorney is not durable;
- The principal revokes 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, and the POA does not provide a successor agent.
Medical Powers
An advance directive can be revoked by the principal at any time by:[2]
- Writing “VOID” across the document;
- Destroying the existing copies with the intent to revoke;
- Writing and signing a statement of revocation; or
- Verbally stating the intent to revoke in the presence of a witness age 18 or older who is not related by blood or marriage or a beneficiary of the principal’s estate.