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Advance Directives as I have prepared them in the draft I will email to you are documents that allow your Agent/Attorney-in-Fact to obtain medical information about you specific to Mental/Behavioral Health including Addiction (Examples include depression, anxiety, alcohol, or opioids), and sign forms necessary for your care in those areas if you are not able to do so for yourself. They also indicate whether you would like to authorize your Agent to voluntarily* admit you to in-patient treatment for up to 14 days.
The the Mental Health Advance Directive Act (RCW § 71.32.260) governs the use of the document.
Washington Law Help has prepared a summary of the kind of detail that can be added to the form.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has 44-page Practical Guide.
*involuntary admission requires two mental health professionals to certify that you are a clear and present danger to yourself (RCW § 71.05). Civil Inpatient Commitment can be for 72 hours.
Ricky’s Law or HB 1713 makes changes to (RCW § 71.05)
Ricky’s Law, or HB1713, is a law that allows the state of Washington to involuntarily detain adults and minors who are at risk of harming themselves or others due to a substance use disorder. The law was passed in 2016 and went into effect on April 1, 2018. Designated mental health professionals will be able to detain a person who meets the criteria for involuntary treatment due to a substance use disorder to a secure withdrawal management and stabilization facility if there is space available.
The law is named after Ricky Garcia, a suicide survivor who believes he could have been helped sooner if Washington had involuntary commitment. The law designates nine facilities for involuntary commitment.
Ricky’s Law requires Designated Crisis Responders to place people in specific medical facilities if they are at imminent risk or danger to themselves or others or are unable to care for their own basic needs.
INCREASING GRATITUDE COMPASSION AND KINDNESS
Awareness of Possible Need for potentially life saving intervention for drug or alcohol rehab or suicidal depression is important. Children as young as 13 can execute a MHAD. Part of Estate Planning is about increasing gratitude, compassion, and kindness. By thinking about the possibility of being affected by mental/behavioral health issues including addiction people become more sensitive to the struggles of others. That sensitivity and lack of Judgment saves lives.
Christopher S. Mulvaney’s Mission:
To Always Be a Human Being First,
and My Role Second.
To First, Do No Harm, then to provide the best legal outcome,
smoothest process, best value, and to make a positive difference
in the life of every Client.
Christopher S. Mulvaney’s Mantra:
May I be filled with loving kindness for all life.
May I be safe from dangers within and without.
May I be healthy in body, mind, socially, and spiritually.
May I be at ease and happy, doing good in the world.
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Mulvaney Law Offices, PLLC is located in Bellevue, Washington, representing estate planning & probate, chapter 7 and chapter 13 bankruptcy, and real estate transactions clients in:
Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, Bellevue, Redmond, Renton, Issaquah,
Sammamish, Maple Valley, Burien, SeaTac, and throughout King,
Snohomish, and Pierce counties.