Will Laws
North Carolina
Will Laws
North Carolina
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
NC GEN ST ยง 29-1 to 29-30North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 29 (Intestate Succession)
State Law Statute
90-320, et seq. Right to Natural Death
Specific Powers
Declarant may instruct attending physicians' to withhold extraordinary means to keep declarant alive whose condition is either terminal and incurable or who is in a persistent vegetative state as confirmed in writing by second physician which would only serve to postpone artificially the moment of death by sustaining, restoring, or supplanting a vital function
Revocation Duration
A living will is revocable in any manner by which the declarant is able to communicate his intent to revoke, without regard for his current mental or physical state. Revocation is effective immediately upon communication to physician.