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Tex. Health & Safety Code § 166.155

REVOCATION; EFFECT OF TERMINATION OF MARRIAGE

Known as the Advance Directives Act

The act spans §§ 166–166 (82 sections).

Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 3.02(a), eff

(a) A medical power of attorney is revoked by:

(1) oral or written notification at any time by the principal to the agent or a licensed or certified health or residential care provider or by any other act evidencing a specific intent to revoke the power, without regard to whether the principal is competent or the principal's mental state; or

(2) execution by the principal of a subsequent medical power of attorney.

(a-1) An agent's authority under a medical power of attorney is revoked if the agent's marriage to the principal is dissolved, annulled, or declared void unless the medical power of attorney provides otherwise.

(b) A principal's licensed or certified health or residential care provider who is informed of or provided with a revocation of a medical power of attorney shall immediately record the revocation in the principal's medical record and give notice of the revocation to the agent and any known health and residential care providers currently responsible for the principal's care.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.