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This new law will not change the language of your current document, which can still only be activated by two physicians or a physician and a psychologist. If you want a PA or APRN (along with a physician) to be able to activate your Living Will and/or POA, you will need to execute a new one with updated language.

The Power of Attorney for Health Care (POA-HC) Form (DHS Form F-00085) makes it possible for adults in Wisconsin to authorize other individuals (called health care agents) to make health care decisions on their behalf should they become incapacitated.

If you initialed "real property," giving your agent the power to conduct transactions with real estate, you should also file a copy of your POA in the land records office in the county where you own real estate or expect to deal with real estate in the future. In Wisconsin, this office is called the register of deeds.

When Does an Agent's Authority to Make Decisions Begin? Most Power of Attorney for Health Care documents provide that the document becomes ?activated? when two physicians or one physician and one psychologist personally examine the principal and then sign a statement certifying that the principal is incapacitated.

Living Will, Power of Attorney forms, Authorization for Final Disposition.

So for the benefit of everyone watching, just remember financial power of attorney, you don't need witnesses but best practice is to sign in front of a notary public and for the healthcare power of attorney, you must have those disinterested witnesses and it can't be a health care provider, someone who's financially ...