In Part I of this blog, you learned a little about the Advance Directive for Health Care in Georgia and why it is important to choose the right person for the first part of the advance directive. Part II of the advance directive is about your choices for life support.
Part Two of the Georgia Advance Directive for Health Care Form
Part Two of the Georgia Advance Directive for Health Care is what was in the former Living Will document. Before you make any of these decisions, you should discuss the choices with your health care provider. There are pros and cons of every choice, and you can only make those choices when you are fully informed.
The decisions you make include when you want your doctor to stop life support, and when your doctor should stop giving you nutrition and/or hydration. Because many of these choices have legal ramifications, you should also speak to your Estate Attorney about your decisions to be sure that you understand how your decisions could affect your family pursuant to Georgia law.
There are a number of different possibilities for how your affairs will be managed during incapacity depending on how you have your estate is structured. Your assets and liabilities are handled differently based on whether you have a will or a trust, and the type of trust you set up. Some trusts are created with the goal of protecting your assets for your family instead of allowing them to be used to pay the costs associated with a nursing home. Other trusts are not established to protect assets but instead are intended to allow a trusted family member or friend to manage your assets if you become incapacitated so that a conservator is not needed to manage your estate.
Contact Grissom Law, LLC to discuss your advance directive choices, and to create an estate if you do not have an estate plan. Or, contact us if you need to update your current estate plan and advance directives, or add advance directives to your estate plan.
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