1997 Minnesota Statutes

     145C.09 Revocation of durable power of attorney. 

    Subdivision 1.    Revocation.  The principal may revoke 
 a durable power of attorney for health care at any time by doing 
 any of the following: 

    (1) canceling, defacing, obliterating, burning, tearing, or 
 otherwise destroying the durable power of attorney for health 
 care instrument or directing another in the presence of the 
 principal to destroy the durable power of attorney for health 
 care instrument; 

    (2) executing a statement, in writing and dated, expressing 
 the principal's intent to revoke the durable power of attorney 
 for health care; 

    (3) verbally expressing the principal's intent to revoke 
 the durable power of attorney for health care in the presence of 
 two witnesses who do not have to be present at the same time; or 

    (4) executing a subsequent durable power of attorney for 
 health care instrument, to the extent the subsequent instrument 
 is inconsistent with any prior instrument. 

    Subd. 2.    Effect of dissolution or annulment of marriage 
 or termination of domestic partnership on appointment of agent. 
  Unless the durable power of attorney for health care 
 expressly provides otherwise, the appointment by the principal 
 of the principal's spouse or domestic partner as agent under a 
 durable power of attorney for health care is revoked by the 
 commencement of proceedings for dissolution, annulment, or 
 termination of the principal's marriage or commencement of 
 proceedings for termination of the principal's registered 
 domestic partnership. 

    HIST: 1993 c 312 s 10