This division may be cited as the Health Care Decisions Law.
Cal. Prob. Code § 4600
Short Title and Definitions
Known as the Health Care Decisions Law
The act spans §§ 4600–4806 (113 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 99 Cal. App. 4th 516 - Edward W. v. Lamkins (2002)
Most recently applied in Alexander v. Scripps Mem'l Hosp. La Jolla (April 2018)
Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.