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HRS §327E-4

How to cancel your advance health-care directive

You can cancel your health-care directive or change who makes decisions for you. If you cancel it, your health-care providers must be told. A divorce or new directive can also cancel parts of it.

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The statute, as written — Revocation of advance health-care directive [§327E-4] Revocation of advance health-care directive

(a) An individual may revoke the designation of an agent only by a signed writing or by personally informing the supervising health-care provider. (b) An individual may revoke all or part of an advance health-care directive, other than the designation of an agent, at any time and in any manner that communicates an intent to revoke. (c) A health-care provider, agent, guardian, or surrogate who is informed of a revocation shall promptly communicate the fact of the revocation to the supervising health-care provider and to any health-care institution at which the patient is receiving care. (d) A decree of annulment, divorce, dissolution of marriage, or legal separation revokes a previous designation of a spouse as agent unless otherwise specified in the decree or in a power of attorney for health care. (e) An advance health-care directive that conflicts with an earlier advance health-care directive revokes the earlier directive to the extent of the conflict.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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