http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Estate-Planning/Arkansas/index.html LawInfo - Legal Resource Center offers free Arkansas Estate Planning legal forms and free Arkansas Estate Planning legal documents that is designed to help consumers and businesses resolve their legal issues http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Estate-Planning/Arkansas/are-advance-directives-only-for-older-people-.html No, even young people can be involved in car accidents or have serious illness. Most of the court cases involving withholding of life­support treatments have involved young people in their twenties or thirties. Arkansas Estate Planning FAQs Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:29:04 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Estate-Planning/Arkansas/can-life-support-treatments-even-tube-feeding.html Yes, the patient may almost always refuse treatment for himself or herself. In addition, Arkansas law specifies who may make decisions for incompetent persons in the absence of an Advance Directive. However, nursing homes usually require tube feedings unless the person has an Advance Directive. Arkansas Estate Planning FAQs Tue, 29 May 2007 21:19:00 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Estate-Planning/Arkansas/can-unexpected-recoveries-happen.html Although there are occasional reports of unexplained recoveries from terminal illness, your responsibility is to make the best decision based on the most likely outcome from the information given to you by your physician. Arkansas Estate Planning FAQs Tue, 29 May 2007 21:19:00 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Estate-Planning/Arkansas/is-the-advance-directive-a-medical-order.html A Living Will/Advance Directive is NOT a No Code Order or a No Treatment Order. Should you be involved in an emergency situation or have a heart attack, you would still be coded and treated aggressively until you were stabilized and an assessment of your condition could be made. The advance directive takes effect ONLY when you are terminal, or would die in a relatively short time, or are permanently unconscious. In an emergency situation, not even the doctor may know if you are terminal. In any situation, only the physician with your consent or your proxy/family's consent can write a medical order which gives a No Code Order to stop treatment. The PURPOSE of an advance directive is to make your wishes known so that a good decision can be made by your doctor and family as to when to stop certain treatments. The advance directive is not a medical order of any kind. Arkansas Estate Planning FAQs Tue, 29 May 2007 21:19:00 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Estate-Planning/Arkansas/is-the-advance-directive-legal-in-other-state.html Maybe. Arkansas law recognizes most advance directives from other states, BUT other states may not recognize Arkansas Advance Directives. Arkansas Estate Planning FAQs Tue, 29 May 2007 21:19:00 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Estate-Planning/Arkansas/what-if-i-change-my-mind.html If you change your mind about your Advance Directive, simply tear it up and tell your family and your physician. Arkansas Estate Planning FAQs Tue, 29 May 2007 21:19:00 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Estate-Planning/Arkansas/what-is-an-advance-directive.html An Advance Directive enables you to guide your family and physician if you are unable to communicate with them. It allows you to control the extent to which life­sustaining medical measures will be used and can help you protect your loved ones from being forced to make those difficult decisions. A Living Will is NOT a property will. A Healthcare Proxy is a person you appoint to make medical decisions for you if you are unable to make them for yourself. This person may make decisions that are not clearly stated in your Advance Directive. Arkansas Estate Planning FAQs Tue, 29 May 2007 21:19:00 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Estate-Planning/Arkansas/what-to-do-with-the-living-will-advance-direc.html Do NOT put it in a safe deposit box, and do mail it to the hospital. Please bring it with you each time you are hospitalized, just as you bring with you your insurance card and/or Medicare cards. Please give a copy to your doctor and your family members so that they can discuss it with you if they wish. Put the advance directive in a place it can be easily found if you are hospitalized in an emergency. Someone close to you who would be likely to accompany you to the hospital should have a copy. Arkansas Estate Planning FAQs Tue, 29 May 2007 21:19:00 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Estate-Planning/Arkansas/where-do-i-get-help-with-advance-directives.html Please contact a Guest Services Representative at (501) 622­2280 Monday ­ Friday, 8 a.m. ­ 4:30 p.m. for help with the following: To fill out an Advance Directive To receive a blank copy of an Advance Directive To change or cancel an existing Advance Directive Contact an Ethical Consultant for help with life support withdrawal, and life support systems including artificial nutrition, or other ethical issues. Arkansas Estate Planning FAQs Tue, 29 May 2007 21:19:00 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Estate-Planning/Arkansas/who-can-be-a-witness.html Competent adults over 18, but not the person named as Proxy. Arkansas Estate Planning FAQs Tue, 29 May 2007 21:19:00 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Estate-Planning/Arkansas/who-can-be-the-proxy.html Generally any competent person over 18, but this person is usually a close relative or close friend. Your doctor usually does not want to be the proxy. Please write the phone number of the proxy on the Advance Directive. Arkansas Estate Planning FAQs Tue, 29 May 2007 21:19:00 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Estate-Planning/Arkansas/who-can-fill-one-out.html Only competent persons age 18 or over can fill out an Advance Directive. If the person is not competent or is under 18, Arkansas law allows for proxy decision makers. Arkansas Estate Planning FAQs Tue, 29 May 2007 21:19:00 GMT http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/Legal-FAQs/Estate-Planning/Arkansas/withdrawing-specific-treatments.html The advance directive specifically names several treatments that may be withdrawn if the patient is terminal. In filling out the living will, you are saying that any or all of these treatments can be removed if you are terminal and if these don't assist with pain control. If you ALWAYS want artificial nutrition and hydration, even if you are permanently unconscious, then cross out that line and initial it. Cross out any treatment that you always want in every circumstance and initial it. (Most people do not cross out any of the treatments.) 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