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Alabama Living Will / Health Care Declaration

Locke uses the official-form living-will route for Alabama: Advance Directive for Health Care — Living Will. Combined-form agent, proxy, or donation sections stay VOID in this product. This document records treatment wishes only. It does not appoint a healthcare agent and is not portable medical order / DNR order under Alabama clinical protocols.

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Pinned Alabama record · not a catalog claim

What this Alabama instrument is

Topic	Maintained record
Instrument	Advance Directive for Health Care — Living Will
Route	Official or statutory form, treatment part only
Healthcare agent	Not appointed by this document. Use the separate Advance Healthcare Directive and Medical Power of Attorney.
Medical order	In Alabama, do not represent this Living Will as the separate clinician/EMS medical-order instrument identified here. Separate instrument: portable medical order / DNR order under Alabama clinical protocols.
Execution	Use the substantially statutory Alabama advance-directive execution block; two qualified adult witnesses. Preserve state witness declarations.
Pregnancy rule	Current law materially limits or suspends treatment instructions during pregnancy. The state pack must disclose the restriction and may not offer a choice that law does not permit.
Authority	Ala. Code § 22-8A-4 (checked 2026-08-20)

Visible coverage maturity · State-informed

What this coverage level means

Coverage area	Status	What that means
Product availability	Available	Living Will / Health Care Declaration is released for purchase and can begin with Alabama selected.
Coverage maturity	State-informed	This document resolves maintained state-family configuration blocks. That is not a claim that every action-specific state or local rule has been reviewed.
State configuration	Maintained	living-will-health-care-declaration:healthcare_directive__AL, version 2.2.0, Healthcare Directive.
County and address	Collected when relevant	These facts narrow the document context but do not prove that every local rule has been identified.
Attorney review	Customer-arranged	Legal advice is not included; counsel of the customer's choice may review the completed document.

What Locke collects

Information that shapes this document

State, county, and address from the jurisdiction-first workflow
Legal name, current address, and signing date
Treatment elections required by the selected state's directive model
Optional values/additional instructions where the selected form allows them
Whether separate agent or clinician-order documents already exist

What this document covers

Built for the stated scope

Advance treatment planning before illness or injury
Standalone treatment instructions without appointing a healthcare agent
Coordinating written treatment wishes with an existing healthcare proxy
Recording pregnancy-related and execution rules that vary by state

Configuration record · living-will-health-care-declaration:healthcare_directive__AL · 2.2.0

How the Alabama lane enters this draft

Locke selects this document family’s maintained state configuration after the state answer is saved. County, address, and later interview answers narrow any clauses that use those facts.

Advance Directive for Health Care — Living Will

ADVANCE DIRECTIVE FOR HEALTH CARE (Living Will and Health Care Proxy) — ALABAMA Section 1. Living Will I, the information supplied in the interview, being of sound mind and at least 19 years old, make the following wishes known. I direct my family, doctors, health care workers, and others to follow these directions when this advance directive applies. If I have a terminal illness or injury If my doctor and another doctor determine that I have a terminal illness or injury that cannot be cured and that I will die in a relatively short time without life-sustaining treatment: Life-sustaining treatment: the information supplied in the interview Artificially provided food and hydration: the information supplied in the interview If I become permanently unconscious If my doctor and another doctor determine that I am permanently unconscious and there is no reasonable hope that I will regain consciousness: Life-sustaining treatment: the information supplied in the interview Artificially provided food and hydration: the information supplied in the interview Other directions the information supplied in the interview Health Care Proxy NOT COMPLETED IN THIS STANDALONE LIVING WILL. Alabama permits the proxy section to be used, but this document does not appoint a health-care proxy. Use the separate health-care-agent product if appointment authority is wanted. Signature and Witnesses Signed: Date: the information supplied in the interview Address: the information supplied in the interview I certify that the declarant signed or acknowledged this advance directive in my presence, appears to be of sound mind and under no duress, fraud, or undue influence, and that I satisfy the witness restrictions in Ala. Code § 22-8A-4. Witness 1: Date: Witness 2: Date: This advance directive is signed in the presence of two or more witnesses at least 19 years of age. Each witness must be at least 19 and may not be the proxy, the person signing for the declarant, related by blood/adoption/marriage, entitled to the declarant's estate, or directly financially responsible for the declarant's medical care.

Separate Medical Order — Alabama

In Alabama, do not represent this Living Will as the separate clinician/EMS medical-order instrument identified here. Separate medical-order instrument: portable medical order / DNR order under Alabama clinical protocols. This Living Will is not represented as that clinician/EMS medical order.

Locke is a document-assistance platform, not a law firm, and does not provide legal advice. Outputs require professional review; consult counsel of your choice.

Known coverage limit

County, municipal, court, and agency rules may still apply

Requirements may also depend on a Alabama county, municipality, city ordinance, rent board, local court, recorder, clerk, licensing authority, zoning district, property location, or another local body. Collecting a county and address does not mean Locke has identified every applicable local rule.

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Before purchase

Questions about this state-configured document

Does a Alabama living will appoint a healthcare agent?

No. This Locke Direct product is treatment-wishes only. Agent appointment is a separate product.

Is the Alabama living will a portable medical order / DNR order under Alabama clinical protocols?

In Alabama, do not represent this Living Will as the separate clinician/EMS medical-order instrument identified here.

How do I sign a Alabama living will?

Use the substantially statutory Alabama advance-directive execution block; two qualified adult witnesses. Preserve state witness declarations.

How is the Living Will / Health Care Declaration configured for Alabama?

After you select Alabama, Locke asks for the county and address, when relevant, and applies the maintained Alabama configuration for this document family to your answers.

Is this a guarantee that the Living Will / Health Care Declaration will be valid?

No. Locke assists with document generation and does not guarantee legal validity, enforceability, filing acceptance, or a particular outcome.

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