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A Non-durable Power of Attorney for Physical
and Health Care of Minor Child permits an Agent (your "agent",
"attorney-in-fact") to make decisions about the child's medical
treatment for a limited period of time.
The powers you grant in the above mentioned
document will terminate if you become disabled or incompetent.
A Non-Durable Power of Attorney for Physical and Health Care of Minor
Child is valid for the time period that you specify in it, or until
it is revoked by you.
Among the powers discussed in a Non Durable Power of Attorney for
health care of minor child are:
to decide what king of health care is needed, what kind of medical treatment or hospitalization to choose, to withhold or withdraw any type of medical treatment or procedure, to make any necessary effort to prolong the child’s life in the absence of a parent, to have access to the child’s medical records.
You are not giving your agent the power or authority to authorize the termination of life-support, food or hydration systems.
These powers are explained more fully in the uniform statutory form Power of Attorney act, which expressly permits the use of any other or different form of Power of Attorney.
The Non-durable Power of Attorney for Physical and Health Care of Minor Child must be dated and acknowledged before a notary public or signed by two witnesses.
If there is anything about this form that you do not understand, you should ask a lawyer to explain it to you.
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