The Oregon Living Will is titled "Health Care Instructions" and is provided with a form for naming a Health Care Proxy in an Advance Directive packet.
For your OR Advance Directive to be considered valid, you and two (2) witnesses must sign it.
For your OR Advance Directive to be considered valid, you and two (2) witnesses must sign it.
Oregon Advance Directive Form
Other resources for Oregon:
Death Certificates
Digital Estate Planning Laws:
Law: SB 1554 Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act
Description: "It allows a fiduciary, such as a personal representative, trustee or conservator, to access certain digital content within certain limits. It permits entities that hold electronic data to allow users to specify their wishes in the event they become inactive or when the entity receives a request for information. (If a user specifies, that trumps all other instructions, including a will.) The measure also permits fiduciaries to obtain a catalogue of digital communications, and sets forth a number of protocols for them, to cover a variety of situations, such as: when users consent to disclosure, or refuse, or fail to specify; or when disclosure has been ordered by a court." [Source: Oregon's Summary of Legislation, 2016]
Status: Effective January 1, 2017
Death With Dignity Legislation (a.k.a. Aid-In-Dying or Physician-Assisted Death)
Organ Donation Registries
Oregon Organ Donation registry official link.
POLST (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment) Form
Download the POLST form for Oregon residents.
Probate Laws
Estate And Inheritance Tax Rate
Death Certificates
- Click here to download the application for a certified Oregon death certificate in English.
- Click here to download the application for a certified Oregon death certificate in Spanish.
Digital Estate Planning Laws:
Law: SB 1554 Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act
Description: "It allows a fiduciary, such as a personal representative, trustee or conservator, to access certain digital content within certain limits. It permits entities that hold electronic data to allow users to specify their wishes in the event they become inactive or when the entity receives a request for information. (If a user specifies, that trumps all other instructions, including a will.) The measure also permits fiduciaries to obtain a catalogue of digital communications, and sets forth a number of protocols for them, to cover a variety of situations, such as: when users consent to disclosure, or refuse, or fail to specify; or when disclosure has been ordered by a court." [Source: Oregon's Summary of Legislation, 2016]
Status: Effective January 1, 2017
Death With Dignity Legislation (a.k.a. Aid-In-Dying or Physician-Assisted Death)
- The Death with Dignity Act has been legal in Oregon since 1997.
Organ Donation Registries
Oregon Organ Donation registry official link.
POLST (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment) Form
Download the POLST form for Oregon residents.
Probate Laws
Estate And Inheritance Tax Rate
- The top estate tax rate is 16 percent (exemption threshold: $1 million)