Arkansas § 20-6-307 Relationship with advance directives

Arkansas Statutes

§ 20-6-307 — Relationship with advance directives

Arkansas § 20-6-307

Title20

This text of Arkansas § 20-6-307 (Relationship with advance directives) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Arkansas primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook

Ark. Code Ann. § 20-6-307 (2026).

Text

(a)(1) A physician order for life-sustaining treatment form is not intended to replace an advance directive.

(2)In executing a physician order for life-sustaining treatment form, a patient, the legal representative of the patient when applicable, and the physician shall make a good-faith effort to locate and incorporate treatment preferences documented in a previously executed advance directive, when appropriate and desired by the patient.

(b)In the event of a conflict with a physician order for life-sustaining treatment form and an advance directive, either:

(1)The document executed most recently by the patient shall take precedence regarding the medical decision or treatment preference at issue; or (2) If both the advance directive and the physician order for life-sustaining treatmen

Free access — add to your briefcase to read the full text and ask questions with AI

(a) (1) A physician order for life-sustaining treatment form is not intended to replace an advance directive. (2) In executing a physician order for life-sustaining treatment form, a patient, the legal representative of the patient when applicable, and the physician shall make a good-faith effort to locate and incorporate treatment preferences documented in a previously executed advance directive, when appropriate and desired by the patient. (b) In the event of a conflict with a physician order for life-sustaining treatment form and an advance directive, either: (1) The document executed most recently by the patient shall take precedence regarding the medical decision or treatment preference at issue; or (2) If both the advance directive and the physician order for life-sustaining treatment form were executed by the legal representative of the patient, the advance directive shall take precedence regarding the medical decision or treatment preference at issue. (c) This section does not prohibit or require the execution, revocation, or modification of an advance directive.