54.1-2989.1 - Failure to deliver advance directive. - Virginia Statutes

§ 54.1-2989.1. Failure to deliver advance directive.

An agent in possession of an advance medical directive vesting any power orauthority in him shall, when the instrument is otherwise valid, be deemed topossess the powers and authority granted by such instrument notwithstandingany failure by the declarant to deliver the instrument to him, and personsdealing with such agent shall have no obligation to inquire into the manneror circumstances by which such possession was acquired; provided, however,that nothing herein shall preclude the court from considering such manner orcircumstances as relevant factors in a proceeding brought to remove the agentor revoke the directive.

(2003, c. 269.)