How To Create Your Health Care Directives

Jennifer Martin, Esq. is a partner at Jarratt Martin Law, LLP, an estate planning, mediation and family law firm in Pleasanton. Her practice focuses on estate planning, probate and trust administration and probate court litigation, including conservatorships. Ms. Martin is a member of the family law and estate planning sections of the Alameda County Bar Association, as well as a member of East Bay Trusts and Estates Lawyers. She is also the co-chair for the Contra Costa County High School Moot Court competition. Ms. Martin attended Rutgers School of Law – Camden, graduating magna cum laude, and has a B.A. in Mathematics from U.C. Berkeley. Prior to opening her own firm, Ms. Martin clerked for the Honorable Anthony J. Parrillo (ret.), a Presiding Judge in the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court. She is admitted to practice law in California, as well as in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

How to Create your Health Care Directives:  

This self-help talk teaches the audience how to prepare their own Health Care Directive so that if the individual ever becomes unable to make decisions for his or herself, a designated agent will be identified to make decisions for the individual. A health care directive is more than just appointing someone to make decisions for you. It is also your way of helping your agent know what kind of health care treatments you are comfortable with and how you would like your agent to act in certain situations. This talk empowers the audience by showing them how to make an advanced health care directive on their own. The audience also learns that estate planning is so much more than just passing property upon your death.