Colorado Will Laws

  Colorado

Here you will find legal terms and their application by state as this can vary depending on where you live.

Reciprocity - The practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit, especially privileges granted by one country or organization to another. Certain states will limit the extent to which they honor health care directives(reciprocity) from other states, meaning they will only accept them so far as they comply with their own laws. This creates a bit of a legal grey area, however, most times it doesn't become an issue.

State Law Citation and Title

CO REV ST § 15-11-101 to 15-11-122

Colorado Revised Statutes Title 15, Article 11, Part 1 (Intestate Succession)

State Law Statute

15-18-102, et seq. Colorado Medical Treatment Decision Act

Specific Powers

Any medical procedure or intervention that would serve only to prolong the dying process; it shall not include any medical procedure for nourishment or considered by attending physician to provide comfort or alleviate pain; however, artificial nourishment may be withdrawn pursuant to declaration that artificial nutrition:

1. not be provided or continued when it is the only procedure being provided;
2. be continued for a specified period when it is the only procedure being provided

   Revocation Duration

   A living will is revocable by declarant orally, in writing, or by burning, tearing, cancelling; obliterating, or destroying the original declaration.

   Immunity Physician

   No hospital or physician acting under direction of physician and participating in the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures in compliance with a declaration shall be subject to any civil or criminal liability or licensing sanction in the absence of revocation, fraud, misrepresentation, or improper execution.