Will Laws
Nebraska
Will Laws
Nebraska
Here you will find legal terms and their application by state as this can vary depending on where you live.
Reciprocity - The practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit, especially privileges granted by one country or organization to another. Certain states will limit the extent to which they honor health care directives(reciprocity) from other states, meaning they will only accept them so far as they comply with their own laws. This creates a bit of a legal grey area, however, most times it doesn't become an issue.
State Law Citation and Title
NE REV ST ยง 30-2301 to 30-2312Nebraska Revised Statutes Chapter 30, Article 23, Part 1 (Intestate Succession)
State Law Statute
20-401, et seq. Rights of the Terminally Ill Act
Specific Powers
Any medical procedure or intervention that will serve only to prolong the process of dying or maintain the patient in a persistent vegetative act, meaning that to a reasonable degree of medical certainty one has a total and irreversible loss of consciousness and capacity for cognitive interaction with the environment with no reasonable hope of improvement. Does not affect physicians' responsibility to provide treatment, including nutrition and hydration for patients' comfort care or alleviation of pain. Life-sustaining treatment shall be provided if declarant is pregnant and fetus is likely to develop to the point of live birth with continued application of lifesustaining treatment
Revocation Duration
A living will is revocable at any time in any manner, regardless of the declarants current physical or mental condition. Revocation becomes effective upon communication to physician or other health care provider. Any revocation shall become part of declarants medical record.
Reciprocity
A declaration executed in another state that is in compliance with the law in that state or Nebraska is valid.
Transfer Unwilling
Physician shall take all prompt and reasonable steps to transfer to a willing physician