A North Carolina advance instruction for mental health treatment states your wishes about medications, electroconvulsive treatment, and facility admission, to be followed if you later lack capacity to make mental health decisions. A North Carolina advance instruction for mental health treatment states your wishes about medications, electroconvulsive treatment, and facility admission, to be followed if you later lack capacity to make mental health decisions.
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A North Carolina advance instruction for mental health treatment states your wishes about medications, electroconvulsive treatment, and facility admission, to be followed if you later lack capacity to make mental health decisions.
What you'll need
Read the packet and check the receiving agency's required form.
Gather the names, dates and supporting records requested in the document.
Review the packet's signing, identification and witness instructions.
How to complete it
Write your instructions (Pages 1–2) Describe your wishes. Be as specific as you can about medications and providers.
Sign with two witnesses and a notary (Page 3) North Carolina requires the advance instruction to be signed before two qualified witnesses and acknowledged before a notary. We can provide witnesses for an additional fee.
Give copies to your doctors, mental health providers, and health care agent.
You may combine it with a Health Care Power of Attorney (see Section 5.D of that form).
This is North Carolina’s official form an agent signs, under penalty of perjury, to confirm a power of attorney is still valid. Banks and title companies often ask for it.
This is North Carolina’s official statutory form for naming a health care agent to make medical decisions for you when you cannot make or communicate them.
Federal privacy law (HIPAA) limits who doctors, hospitals, and insurers can talk to about you. This authorization lets the people you name receive your health information so they can help you.
North Carolina’s official limited power of attorney lets an agent buy, sell, or finance one specific property for you, for example when you cannot attend a closing. It expires automatically after one year unless you choose another date.
This is North Carolina’s official statutory living will. It tells your health care providers when to withhold or withdraw life-prolonging measures if you cannot make or communicate decisions.
This is North Carolina’s official statutory short form for naming someone (your “agent”) to handle your property and finances. It does not cover health care decisions.
These forms are a free convenience, not legal advice. First Choice Mobile Notary & Apostille is not a law firm. Consult an attorney licensed in the relevant state for legal questions.