Health Care Directives – Life’s Important Decisions

Health Care Directives – One of Life’s Most Important Decisions

California law provides individuals with the ability to document their health care wishes in the event they are unable to make health care decisions themselves.  This may include documenting authorizations for organ donations, documenting the type of care and treatment you would want to receive, expressing end of life decisions, and selecting someone to make health care decisions for you when you are unable to do so yourself.  The person you name as an agent in your health care directive will be responsible for making healthcare decisions for you if you lose the ability to make the decisions yourself.

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Christine Ellingsen is a Northern California native now practicing law as an estate planning attorney in Carmel Valley San Diego at the Barger Law Group, APC.  She spent a year in New York working in the business sector before moving to Southern California to attend law school at the University of San Diego.  She is happy to have started her law career in San Diego and to now call Encinitas home, where she keeps busy between exploring Coastal North County and training her new puppy.