Mental Health Living Will Witnesses,
Generally
Pennsylvania requires two
subscribing witnesses to every
Mental Health Living
Will. A Pennsylvania mental health living will that has not been
properly witnessed will not be followed.
If the
declarant personally signs the document, a
witness may be any competent
person who is at least eighteen years old. If the declarant must ask
another person to sign on his or her behalf, the person who writes the
declarant's signature may not also sign as a witness.
In either case, the witnesses must be present and observe the declarant
apply his or her signature to the document or observe the other person do so
on the declarant's behalf.
See: Mental Health Living Will,
Generally;
Mental Health Living Will, Who May Create;
Mental Health Living Will, Duration of Effect;
Witnesses, Generally;
Signing By Another Person;
Signing By Mark
