Draft an advance care directive from the instructions
Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- Turn the client's treatment and values instructions into a first draft on the current form, listing optional clauses and witnesses required.
- What the lawyer must review
- Use the current form; this is not medical advice
- Confirm the client understands and has capacity
- Written for / version
- US
Open a jurisdiction version of this task to see which instruments apply: US
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Potential support includes preparing preliminary structure or wording. Confirm the tool’s capability and permitted scope. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Check the current court or regulator requirements, prescribed form and attachments for the intended document and filing.
- Confirm instructions and personal circumstances through appropriate direct engagement. Have the responsible lawyer assess safety, capacity or vulnerability concerns and escalation.
- Verify the applicable jurisdiction and the version of each relevant law, rule or instrument in force at the material time.
- Confirm the output against the client’s instructions and the complete relevant source material, including omissions or contradictions.
- Resolve exceptions and record the responsible lawyer’s approval of the exact output and intended use.
Forms and precedents for this task
| Form or precedent | Kind | AI use | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health direction (ACT approved form AF2017-46): completion guide | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to approved form AF2017-46, the health direction under the Medical Treatment (Health Directions) Act 2006 (ACT), section 21. |
| Statement of Choices (ACT advance care planning): completion guide | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to the ACT Statement of Choices form for a competent adult, on the advance care planning page. |
| Advance Personal Plan (Northern Territory): completion guide | Form | AI use Yellow | Link to the Northern Territory Advance Personal Plan form. |
Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one. All precedents.