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Tenn. Code Ann. § 68-11-1807

Requirement to comply with the patient's individual instruction — Order of precedence

Acts 2004, ch. 862, § 1.

(1) Absent a court order to the contrary, a guardian shall comply with the patient's individual instructions and may not revoke the patient's advance directive.

(2) Absent a court order to the contrary, a health care decision of an agent takes precedence over that of a guardian.

(3) A health care decision made by a guardian for the patient is effective without judicial approval.

Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.