Who can serve as a witness?
A completed advance directive needs the signature of two witnesses or a notary public. Each witness must be a competent adult. At least one of the witnesses must be a person who is not (i) a person designated by you to make a treatment decision (your medical power of attorney); (ii) a person related to you by blood or marriage; (iii) a person entitled to any part of your estate after the your death; (iv) the attending physician; (v) an employee of the attending physician; (vi) an employee of a health care facility in which you are a patient if the employee is providing direct patient care to you or is an officer, director, partner, or business office employee of the health care facility or of any parent organization of the health care facility; or (vii) a person who, at the time the written advance directive is executed or, if the directive is a non-written directive issued under this chapter, at the time the non-written directive is issued, has a claim against any part of the your est
