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The booklet and forms may be ordered from The Missouri Bar at no charge. Specific instructions for completing the detachable health care durable power of attorney and health care directive form are found in this booklet or on The Missouri Bar website at .mobar.org.

Under Missouri law, and the law of many other states, a power of attorney with proper wording may be made ?durable.? This means that the power of the agent to act on the principal's behalf continues despite the principal's incapacity, whether or not a court decrees the principal to be incapacitated.

A Medical Power of Attorney gives your agent the right to make health care decisions for you. A general durable power of attorney empowers the agent to make financial decisions and usually does not give the person the right to make decisions about health care.

The Missouri Bar has developed and makes available as a public service a ?Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care and Health Care Directive? for use by the general public. This form may be downloaded and/or photocopied as needed.

A Missouri medical power of attorney is a form that allows a principal to assign a representative to make health care decisions if they cannot make health care decisions on their own.

Missouri law requires that a durable power of attorney be signed in the presence of two or more witnesses, but allows the principal to revoke it at any time. Physicians who are unwilling to follow the durable power of attorney (perhaps due to moral differences) may arrange for a transfer.