Kentucky · PDF
Kentucky Health Care Surrogate and Living Will Form
Names a health care surrogate and backup for loss of decisional capacity, with separate treatment and organ-donation choices.
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Kentucky · PDF
Kentucky Statutory Durable Financial Power of Attorney Form
The statutory form is durable and immediately effective unless special instructions provide otherwise. It does not grant health care authority.
Sources checked: 2026-11-13. General information, not individual legal advice.
Kentucky’s financial statutory form is available below as an explicitly labeled Justia-hosted copy, with the official legislature source linked separately. Norton Healthcare supplies the medical surrogate and living-will form. Their signing methods differ; the medical download also has a preprinted notary county that must match the actual acknowledgment.
Choose a document for the decisions involved
| Purpose | Form and guide | Document |
|---|---|---|
| Financial and property matters | Kentucky Statutory Durable Financial Power of Attorney Form | Publisher PDF · read complete instructions |
| Health care decisions | Kentucky Health Care Surrogate and Living Will Form | Publisher PDF · read complete instructions |
Use each form page for the complete document, the named publisher and its instructions. A financial appointment and a health care appointment serve different purposes.
Compare the signing arrangements
Financial and property matters: Principal signs. Complete the supplied notarial acknowledgment; under KRS 457.050 acknowledgment creates a presumption that the signature is genuine..
Health care decisions: Sign and date with two qualified adult witnesses together in the principal’s presence, OR acknowledge before a qualified notary. Read KRS 311.625 witness/notary conflict restrictions..
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Discuss the role with your proposed agent and any successor. Read every page before signing, including notices, special powers, treatment choices and agent acknowledgments. Keep the instructions with the form, and give complete copies to the people or institutions that will rely on it.
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Sources and verification
- Kentucky Legislative Research Commission statutory text — PDF copy hosted by Justia: source and instructions (opens in a new tab)
- Justia 2025 code page — PDF host (opens in a new tab)
- Direct statutory PDF — Justia-hosted copy (opens in a new tab)
- KRS 457.050 — execution (opens in a new tab)
- KRS 457.420 — statutory form (opens in a new tab)
- Norton Healthcare: source and instructions (opens in a new tab)
- Direct PDF (opens in a new tab)
- Kentucky Attorney General — living wills and surrogates (opens in a new tab)
- Kentucky KRS Chapter 311 — official law (opens in a new tab)
- KRS 311.625 — form and execution, code mirror (opens in a new tab)
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