[ Estate Planning · Healthcare Directive ]
Decisions made in
your own voice.
[ The Documents ]
Three pages, carefully drafted.
A complete healthcare directive in Tennessee is three documents working together: a living will that records your end-of-life wishes, a healthcare power of attorney that names the person who speaks for you, and a HIPAA release that lets that person access the information they will need.
Drafted as one set, they answer the questions a hospital will actually ask. Drafted in isolation, they leave gaps a chaplain will be asked to fill at midnight.
[ Living will ]
What you would, and would not, want.
A Tennessee living will records your wishes for end-of-life medical care. We walk through each decision plainly, with you at the table, and write down what you tell us in language a physician and a family member can both read in the same minute.
- Artificial nutrition and hydration.
- Mechanical ventilation.
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
- Comfort care and palliative measures.
- Religious or values-based instructions, where you have them.
[ Healthcare power of attorney ]
The person who speaks.
Your healthcare agent is the person empowered to make medical decisions when you cannot. The choice is more important than the document. Pick someone calm under pressure, geographically reachable, and willing to follow your wishes rather than substitute their own.
Name a successor. Talk to both of them now, before the choice is in motion. The single best thing you can do for your agent is the conversation that precedes the document.
[ HIPAA release ]
The information access nobody thinks about.
Without a HIPAA release, your agent cannot get the information needed to make the decisions the document authorizes. The release sounds like an afterthought. It is the bridge between the other two documents and the actual hospital.
We draft all three together so the bridge is built before it is needed.
[ The Work ]
What we draft.
[ Living Will ]
End-of-life wishes.
Custom drafted to your specific values, with religious or personal instructions where you have them.
[ Healthcare POA ]
Your agent, named.
A healthcare power of attorney that names primary and successor agents, with the conversations to back them up.
[ HIPAA Release ]
Information bridge.
A separate release that gives your agent access to the medical records the decisions will require.
[ Pricing ]
Flat-fee, usually bundled.
Healthcare directives are flat-fee, almost always drafted as part of a broader estate plan. The combined fee for the basic four-document plan, including a will, durable POA, healthcare directive, and HIPAA release, is disclosed at the consultation.
[ Questions ]
What clients usually ask.
The living will records your wishes. The healthcare POA names the person who applies them. You need both, and they are usually drafted together.
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