Section 4766 Of Chapter 3. Petitions And Orders From California Probate Code >> Division 4.7. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 3.
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. A petition may be filed under this part for any one or more
of the following purposes:
(a) Determining whether or not the patient has capacity to make
health care decisions.
(b) Determining whether an advance health care directive is in
effect or has terminated.
(c) Determining whether the acts or proposed acts of an agent or
surrogate are consistent with the patient's desires as expressed in
an advance health care directive or otherwise made known to the court
or, where the patient's desires are unknown or unclear, whether the
acts or proposed acts of the agent or surrogate are in the patient's
best interest.
(d) Declaring that the authority of an agent or surrogate is
terminated, upon a determination by the court that the agent or
surrogate has made a health care decision for the patient that
authorized anything illegal or upon a determination by the court of
both of the following:
(1) The agent or surrogate has violated, has failed to perform, or
is unfit to perform, the duty under an advance health care directive
to act consistent with the patient's desires or, where the patient's
desires are unknown or unclear, is acting (by action or inaction) in
a manner that is clearly contrary to the patient's best interest.
(2) At the time of the determination by the court, the patient
lacks the capacity to execute or to revoke an advance health care
directive or disqualify a surrogate.
(e) Compelling a third person to honor individual health care
instructions or the authority of an agent or surrogate.