About This Template
The power to make end-of-life decisions is highly personal and requires clear documentation to relieve family stress and ensure client wishes are followed. This template provides a compliant New York Living Will, a directive that outlines a client’s preferences regarding life-sustaining treatment. It allows estate planning firms to efficiently draft a critical document that conforms to the specific statutory language and healthcare law requirements of New York state, ensuring the client's intentions are legally enforceable.
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Jurisdiction Notes
This document is specific to New York state law and its interpretation of advance directives. New York does not have a single, comprehensive statute governing Living Wills, but rather relies on common law, case law, and the state's Health Care Proxy Law. The language used in this template must align with the specific evidentiary standards and the "clear and convincing evidence" standard for withdrawal of life support in New York. Attorneys must ensure the document is executed in compliance with New York's witness and acknowledgment requirements.
What is this template?
This is a legal document specific to New York state law that allows an individual (the Declarant) to state their wishes concerning medical treatment, especially life-sustaining procedures, if they become terminally ill or permanently unconscious and cannot communicate their decisions. The Living Will template provides the necessary declarations regarding the withholding or withdrawal of specific medical treatments, and it often works in conjunction with a separate Health Care Proxy in New York.
Disclaimer
This template and the information on this page are for informational purposes only and do not constitute legal advice. They are not a substitute for consulting with a qualified legal professional. The use of this template does not create an attorney-client relationship.
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With Clio Draft
If this template is available in your region, you can activate it in your Clio Draft account. It will then be pre-filled with information from your contacts and matters, helping you save time.
- Click Request Template, and complete the Request Information form.
- Open the activation email to activate the template in Clio Draft.
- In Clio Draft, go to Library and select the Court forms subtab.
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Select a category to view all the court forms associated with that
category.
- Find the form that you need. You can use the search bar to search by form number or form title.
- Optional: To preview the form, click the Actions dropdown and then select Preview.
- Click the Actions dropdown and then select Create form template.
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At this stage, you can configure any fields on the template that will
remain consistent across multiple matters and specific practice areas.
- Purple fields: These fields are highlighted in purple because they are connected to linked fields that will automatically insert information entered on the Populate page. If you fill in a purple field, the data in that field will always populate when you draft a document from this form template and will not be overwritten by text entered on the populate page.
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Without Clio Draft
You can download this template as a Microsoft Word document. You can also learn more about how Clio Draft can automate your document workflows and request a demo.
- Click Request Template.
- Open the email from Clio and download the Microsoft Word template.
- Set up Word document templates. This allows you to edit relevant merge fields in the document.