NEW YORK HEALTH CARE PROXY LAWYERS
Telephone No.212.457.9797
In many ways, a health care proxy is much like a living will. These documents speak for you regarding treatment issues when you are unable to speak for yourself. However, a health care proxy is much broader. Living wills usually only apply to end-of-life matters. Health care proxies could apply anytime you receive treatment and are temporarily incapacitated for some reason. If you do not have a proxy, the state might make treatment decisions for you.
At the Dilendorf Law Firm, we know how much a properly-executed health care proxy improves your peace of mind. So, before we start the drafting process, we carefully review your needs as well as applicable New York laws. Our clients handle much of the document drafting themselves via our convenient and secure online portal. Then, once we finish drafting the documents together, we finalize them in accordance with the law.
Telephone No.212.457.9797
Health Care Proxy Benefits
Your designated proxy takes on decision-making power, in accordance with your wishes when a doctor states that you are unable to understand or appreciate the full consequences and exact nature of a treatment program. That could be because of advanced age, severe illness, unconsciousness due to injury, or any other similar event.
Your agent speaks for you in areas like undertaking risky surgical procedures or ingesting medication with unwanted side-effects. Furthermore, your agent knows whether or not you authorize the use of heroic life-saving measures.
Family members might or might not be privy to such information. Additionally, family members do not always agree in these matters. If that happens, the dispute might end up before a judge.
Medical staff will continually monitor you throughout this process. Once you regain your faculties enough to understand the nature and consequences of a certain procedure, the health care proxy terminates by operation of law.
You may also terminate the proxy by executing another one, by giving proper notice to the proxy, or by physically destroying the document in the presence of witnesses.
Document Preparation
The health care proxy is an incredibly private document. At the Dilendorf Law Firm, our secure, cloud-based portal gives you the needed privacy. Other than a routine initial consultation, no one else will even know that you are preparing a health care proxy. The proxies themselves do not even need to know until it is time to execute the documents.
Our document preparation portal helps people draft more than health care proxies. Some other options include Do Not Resuscitate orders and its polar opposite, a Medical Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST). If you desire additional informality yet want a firm plan in place, other options include a surrogate under the Family Health Care Decisions Act or, for terminal illnesses, information required pursuant to the Palliative Care Information Act.
Do not leave important health care matters to chance. For a confidential consultation with an experienced estate planning lawyer in New York, contact Dilendorf Law Firm, PLLC.
Resources
- Health Care Proxy – New York State Department of Health
- New York’s Health Care Proxy Law & Family Health Care Decision Act
- Health Care Proxy & Living Will
- Health Care Proxy Form
- Power of Attorney New York Statutory Short Form
- Health Care Proxy – New York State Attorney General
Telephone No.212.457.9797
For more information about our Health Care Proxy services,
For more information about our Health Care Proxy services,
please contact Dilendorf Law Firm by sending an email or calling us at 212.457.9797