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 health care directive can be revoked by the principal at any time if they are mentally capable. This can be done by:[2]
- Signing a written statement of revocation;
- Verbally expressing the intent to revoke and having a witness document the revocation in writing, which must be signed and dated; or
- Executing a new health care directive that conflicts with the old one.