[WSBAPT] Quick Question: Can Health Care Powers of Attorney be effective immediately?

[Carl Gay]

Every health care power of attorney I draft states it is effective immediately.

 

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Subject: [WSBAPT] Quick Question: Can Health Care Powers of Attorney be effective immediately?

 

RCW 11.125.090 seems to say "yes," but virtually all of the health care powers of attorney I have seen or drafted only take effect upon the person's incapacity.  Is there any law or major practical reason why health care powers of attorney cannot be effective immediately? 

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