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A Wisconsin medical power of attorney lets a person select a health care agent to step in and make decisions if a patient becomes incapacitated. The patient can make special instructions for the agent and must be signed with two (2) witnesses to be legal.

Make sure you sign and witness the form just the way it says in the directions. Then your Five Wishes will be legal and valid. Talk about your wishes with your health care agent, family members and others who care about you.

Overview: In Wisconsin you must fill out two separate forms to have a complete Advance Directive: A Living Will called a "Directive to Physicians and Family or Surrogates" and a "Power of Attorney for Health Care" (a.k.a. Health Care Proxy).

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.

Overview and Instructions The Power of Attorney for Healthcare allows you to name one or more persons to make your healthcare decisions if you are unable to make them for yourself. The person you appoint is called your healthcare agent. Your healthcare agent may make your decisions only when you are unable to do so.

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.