What is a Personal Directive

Описание: A personal directive is an important legal document that allows you to provide directions related to your personal care should you not be capable of making those personal decisions for yourself at sometime in the future.
As such, it empowers the person (or persons) identified in the legal document, often referred to as your agent, to make decisions of a non-financial nature while you are still alive, yet incapable of making those decisions for yourself.
The personal directive only comes into effect when you become incapable of making your own decisions, thus lacking mental capacity, which may require confirmation from medical professionals, and comes to an end upon one’s death.
Critical to the personal directive being legally operative is that it must conform to the laws and statutes of the jurisdiction which has control and oversight of the incapacitated person, such that in Alberta it must be written, signed, dated and witnessed, among other legal and statutory requirements, which are set out in the Alberta Personal Directives Act.
Further rules relating to the establishment and interpretation of personal directives are set out in the relevant jurisdiction’s applicable Personal Directives Act.
Whether you are looking to have a personal directive created or require legal representation in the implementation of an incapacitated person’s personal directive, contact our law firm for experienced legal representation in those matters at [email protected] or 403-400-4092.
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