Mental Health Living Will, When Effective
Although a mental
health living will is valid at the moment it signed and delivered to
your attending physician
or one of your mental health care providers, its instructions will only be
followed when a psychiatrist and at least one other
mental health care professional determines that you are incapable of
making mental health care
decisions independently.
Before this determination is made the terms and instructions of a mental health
living will cannot be followed.
See: Mental Health Living Will,
Generally;
Mental Health Living Will, Who May Create;
Mental Health Living Will, Duration of Effect;
Witnesses, Generally
