End-of-life decisions
Resuscitation, ventilators, feeding tubes, comfort care: the things you don’t want your spouse or child making up at 2 a.m. in an ICU.
Service · Within Estate Planning
Don’t make your family guess.
A healthcare directive, sometimes called a living will, puts your medical wishes in writing, in a form Colorado hospitals will follow. So your family doesn’t spend the worst day of their lives trying to guess what you’d want.
Who This Is For
A gift to the people you’ll leave with the hard decisions.
A clear directive isn’t for you. It’s for the family member sitting in the waiting room, trying to be the kind of person you’d want making your call.
Naming a healthcare proxy
Your medical POA designates the person who speaks for you when you can’t. The directive tells them, and the doctors, what you actually want them saying.
Religious or philosophical wishes
Specific beliefs about transfusions, organ donation, autopsy, burial: in writing, where the hospital can find them.
Avoiding family conflict
When the directive is clear, siblings don’t fight about what mom would have wanted. The directive answers it.
Coordinating with HIPAA
A HIPAA release that pairs with the directive lets your designated person actually get the medical records they’ll need to make decisions.
Already have one?
Bring it in. Directives written more than five years ago, or in another state, should be reviewed.
Book a Call How a Directive Comes Together
Four steps. One conversation that matters.
We treat the conversation as the work and the document as the artifact.
01
Talk through what matters to you
We don’t hand you a checklist. We talk about your beliefs, your fears, and what a good outcome looks like. That conversation drives the document.
02
Draft the directive
Colorado-compliant living will, medical POA, and HIPAA release. Drafted as a coherent set, not a stack of forms.
03
Review and sign
We walk through every section together so you understand what you’re signing. Final signing in our office with the witnesses Colorado law requires.
04
Get them where they need to be
Originals to you, copies to your healthcare proxy and primary doctor, and registration with the Colorado Advance Directive Registry. The document only works if the hospital can find it.
What It Costs
A fixed fee. Quoted upfront.
Healthcare directives are straightforward on their own but are more often bundled as part of a full estate plan.
Includes the conversation, drafting, and the signing meeting.
You’ll receive a transparent fixed-fee quote at the conclusion of your free consultation, tailored to your matter, before any engagement begins.
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