A Titusville living will lawyer from our team can help you create this legal document to ensure your medical preferences are followed even if you cannot speak for yourself. A living will outlines your wishes for treatment if you are incapacitated or require end-of-life care. It also prevents loved ones from having to make difficult healthcare decisions on your behalf.
A Titusville wills, trusts, and probate lawyer from Bogin, Munns & Munns can help you write and witness your living will. Our team has served clients in Central Florida for over 40 years. We can help you. Call us today for a confidential consultation.
Our Titusville Lawyers Understand How to Write Effective Living Wills
Under Florida law, a living will is a legal document that outlines your wishes related to medical care in the event you become incapacitated or otherwise unable to communicate your decisions. Common topics in living wills include end-of-life care, life-prolonging care, and who has the authority to make other decisions for you.
A living will must be signed in the presence of two witnesses. One cannot be a spouse or a blood relative. Our attorneys ensure you meet this criteria and your document will stand up to legal challenges if necessary.
What Is the Difference in a Living Will and a Healthcare Surrogate Designation?
Another part of Florida law allows you to designate a healthcare surrogate in the event you cannot make your medical decisions on your own. While a living will may name a power of attorney for healthcare decisions, we can also help you complete the necessary paperwork for a healthcare surrogate designation.
A healthcare surrogate can consult with your doctors, access your medical records, and consent to or refuse treatment on your behalf. While this may seem redundant, the requirements are similar (two witnesses) and it only requires completing additional paperwork.
It is important to know that a healthcare surrogate designation can take effect immediately or only if you become incapacitated and require someone to make your medical decisions for you.
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Let Our Titusville Team Handle Your Living Will
Our Titusville lawyers want you to feel confident that your wishes will be followed even if you cannot voice them. Since 1979, we have helped individuals and families across Central Florida create estate plans, last wills and testaments, living wills, and other documents. We are here to help you, too.
We want you to have peace of mind about what might happen to you if you become incapacitated. We will create the document to inform your family, caregivers, doctors, and others about your wishes for treatments, life-prolonging care, and end-of-life care. When we create a living will, it should be recognized by healthcare facilities and courts as a legal and valid document.
We have a Titusville office:
Bogin, Munns & Munns, P.A.
2323 S Washington Ave #209
Titusville, FL 32780
We also meet with clients at their homes or other local spots that are most convenient for them. Contact us today to schedule a time. We can walk you through this process and make the difficult conversations easier.
Our Titusville Living Will Attorneys Walk Clients Through Creating These Documents
Our lawyers know how to create a living will and what you should include. We can talk you through this process and record your preferences as we go. The Florida Health Care Advance Directives Act provides the outline for living wills. They typically include:
- A statement of intent about what the document should do
- Whether you wish to receive life-prolonging treatments or when to withhold these treatments, including ventilators, dialysis, and CPR
- Whether you want to receive a feeding tube or IV fluids if your condition calls for them
- Whether you want to receive pain management and what type of pain relief you prefer
- Whether or not you want to receive hospice, comfort care, and palliative care
- Who you want to make healthcare decisions that are not explicitly listed in this document
- When this document goes into effect, usually upon your incapacitation
- The signatures of the witnesses
What Other Details Might Be in a Living Will?
Sometimes, people wish to include specific details about their healthcare that are important to them and might not otherwise be followed. Some examples include:
- If you wish to donate your organs and which ones
- If you do not want to receive opiate painkillers
- If there are other specific medications you do not want to receive
- When your loved ones should withdraw care
- When your loved one should issue a do not resuscitate order
- What should happen if your designated healthcare surrogate cannot follow through with their duties
- Whether you would prefer to pass away at home or in a hospital
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Our Titusville Lawyers Can Create a Living Will as a Part of Your Estate Planning Process
At Bogin, Munns & Munns, a Titusville estate planning lawyer from our team can handle your living will as a part of planning your estate. Other similar tasks you might want to consider include:
- Healthcare Surrogate Designation: Appoint someone to make medical decisions if you become incapacitated.
- Durable Power of Attorney: Grant someone the authority to manage your financial and legal matters.
- Last Will and Testament: Determine how your assets will be distributed after your death.
- Revocable Living Trust: Manage your assets today and avoid probate later.
- Pre-Need Guardian Designation: Name a guardian in case you or a disabled dependent requires one in the future.
- Funeral and Burial Instructions: Specify your final arrangements and related preferences to keep your loved one from having to make these plans.
Talk to Our Titusville Team About Your Living Will and Other Estate Planning Needs
At Bogin, Munns & Munns, we can help you create a living will that outlines your wishes related to medical treatment and end-of-life care if you become incapacitated. A Titusville living will lawyer from our team will make this process easy for you. Contact us today for a confidential consultation.
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