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Financial powers selected by initials, with a choice of immediate continuing authority or a physician-confirmed incapacity trigger. Recording is required before the agent acts after incapacity.
Medical decision authority operates during mental incapacity; the document’s HIPAA release has a separate, broader timing provision.
Sources checked: 2026-11-13. General information, not individual legal advice.
South Carolina’s financial and health care POAs use different signing and recording rules. The financial listing explains recording before an agent acts after incapacity. The Bar’s health care form requires two qualified witnesses, with notarization optional. Its treatment choices and medical-records authorization also operate under different terms.
| Purpose | Form and guide | Document |
|---|---|---|
| Financial and property matters | South Carolina Durable Financial Power of Attorney Form | Publisher PDF · read complete instructions |
| Health care decisions | South Carolina Health Care Power of Attorney 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.
Financial and property matters: Execute with two witnesses and acknowledgment or proof satisfying South Carolina recording law; this template supplies principal notarization and witness blocks. It also supplies an agent acceptance and acknowledgment..
Health care decisions: Principal signs and dates; two qualified witnesses sign. Notarization is optional under the statutory form and is not a substitute for the witnesses..
These summaries identify the arrangements described by the cited law or selected form. Read the detail page for witness eligibility, exceptions and any differences between a publisher’s instructions and current law.
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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