California Probate Code CHAPTER 3 - Health Care Surrogates

• Section 4711.
  (a) A patient may designate an adult as a surrogate to make health care decisions by personally informing the supervising health care provider. The designation of...
• Section 4714.
  A surrogate, including a person acting as a surrogate, shall make a health care decision in accordance with the patient’s individual health care instructions, if...
• Section 4715.
  A patient having capacity at any time may disqualify another person, including a member of the patient’s family, from acting as the patient’s surrogate by...
• Section 4716.
  (a) If a patient lacks the capacity to make a health care decision, the patient’s domestic partner shall have the same authority as a spouse has...
• Section 4717.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, within 24 hours of the arrival in the emergency department of a general acute care hospital of a patient...

Last modified: October 22, 2018