An agent is the person who you have trusted to make health care decisions on your behalf. Usually, this is a spouse, a partner, family member, or friend, but not always. In California there are some guidelines to who you choose to be your agent. They are not allowed to be:
· Your doctor
· An employee of your health care provider/doctor, unless the employee is a domestic partner, a relative by blood/marriage/adoption, or if you are employed with this person
· An employee or operator of a community care facility, except if the individual is your registered domestic partner or is otherwise related to you by blood, marriage or adoption. In addition, you and the employee work at the said community care facility together
For more information visit this Orange County estate planning attorney's (http://www.tompkins-law.com/estate-plan-reviews-and-amendments) blog here:
http://blog.tompkins-law.com/2014/05/why-you-need-living-will-and-power-of.html
· Your doctor
· An employee of your health care provider/doctor, unless the employee is a domestic partner, a relative by blood/marriage/adoption, or if you are employed with this person
· An employee or operator of a community care facility, except if the individual is your registered domestic partner or is otherwise related to you by blood, marriage or adoption. In addition, you and the employee work at the said community care facility together
For more information visit this Orange County estate planning attorney's (http://www.tompkins-law.com/estate-plan-reviews-and-amendments) blog here:
http://blog.tompkins-law.com/2014/05/why-you-need-living-will-and-power-of.html
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