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If you become unable to make your own healthcare decisions and do not have a legal guardian or someone designated under a Medical Power of Attorney, then certain family members and others can make medical treatment decisions on your behalf. An advance directive does not need to be notarized.

To become the medical power of attorney (Health Care Surrogate) or to appoint a person to become your medical power of attorney in Florida, you must complete a Florida Medical Power of Attorney Form, also commonly referred to as the ?Florida Designation of Health Care Surrogate.? This form will have you choose your ...

A Florida Medical Power of Attorney is a legal document that gives someone else permission to make healthcare decisions for you, such as requesting or refusing specific medical treatments, when you cannot do so.

The health care proxy statute provides the legal ability for the family and others to take over someone's health decisions if the incapacitated person is unable to make health care decisions themselves.

A proxy given is effective only for the specific meeting for which originally given and any lawfully adjourned meetings thereof. A proxy is not valid longer than 90 days after the date of the first meeting for which it was given. Each proxy is revocable at any time at the pleasure of the unit owner executing it.

Under Florida Statute 765.401, a medical proxy can be appointed to make health care decisions for an ?incapacitated or developmentally disabled patient? if there is no executed advance directive, if there is no designated surrogate or alternate surrogate to execute an advance directive, or if the designated or ...