Presumption of capacity
Acts 2004, ch. 862, § 1.
(1) This part does not affect the right of an individual to make health care decisions while having capacity to do so.
(2) An individual is presumed to have capacity to make a health care decision, to give or revoke an advance directive, and to designate or disqualify a surrogate.
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.