California Probate Code ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

• Section 4670.
  An adult having capacity may give an individual health care instruction. The individual instruction may be oral or written. The individual instruction may be limited...
• Section 4671.
  (a) An adult having capacity may execute a power of attorney for health care, as provided in Article 2 (commencing with Section 4680). The power of...
• Section 4672.
  (a) A written advance health care directive may include the individual’s nomination of a conservator of the person or estate or both, or a guardian of...
• Section 4673.
  (a) A written advance health care directive is legally sufficient if all of the following requirements are satisfied: (1) The advance directive contains the date of its...
• Section 4674.
  If the written advance health care directive is signed by witnesses, as provided in Section 4673, the following requirements shall be satisfied:(a) The witnesses shall be...
• Section 4675.
  (a) If an individual is a patient in a skilled nursing facility when a written advance health care directive is executed, the advance directive is not...
• Section 4676.
  (a) A written advance health care directive or similar instrument executed in another state or jurisdiction in compliance with the laws of that state or jurisdiction...
• Section 4677.
  A health care provider, health care service plan, health care institution, disability insurer, self-insured employee welfare plan, or nonprofit hospital plan or a similar insurance...
• Section 4678.
  Unless otherwise specified in an advance health care directive, a person then authorized to make health care decisions for a patient has the same rights...

Last modified: October 22, 2018