Mental Health Living Will, Revoking
A mental health living
will can be revoked, or cancelled, at any time, unless the
declarant has been found incapable of making
mental health care
decisions or has been
involuntarily committed.
An involuntarily committed declarant may be permitted to make a revocation,
but only if the attending
physician and another medical professional determine that the declarant
is capable of making mental health decisions.
Any valid revocation can be expressed to the attending physician or other
mental health care provider in writing or verbally. The declarant may also
express the revocation to a third party witness, who is permitted to
communicate the declarant's revocation to the attending physician or other
mental health care
provider on behalf of the declarant. The revocation is effective
immediately upon its communication to one of these people, who must also
make the revocation a part of the declarant's mental health records.
See: Mental Health Living Will,
Generally;
Mental Health Living Will, Who May Create;
Mental Health Living Will, Duration of Effect;
Witnesses, Generally
