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Section 700.5520 - Guardian making medical or mental health decisions; designation of another individual prohibited.

ESTATES AND PROTECTED INDIVIDUALS CODE (EXCERPT)
Act 386 of 1998

700.5520 Guardian making medical or mental health decisions; designation of another individual prohibited.

Sec. 5520.

A legally incapacitated individual who has a guardian with responsibility for making medical or mental health treatment decisions cannot then designate another individual to make medical or mental health treatment decisions for the legally incapacitated individual.


History: Add. 2000, Act 312, Eff. Jan. 1, 2001 ;-- Am. 2004, Act 532, Imd. Eff. Jan. 3, 2005
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