Section 7. A principal may revoke a health care proxy by notifying the agent or a health care provider orally or in writing or by any other act evidencing a specific intent to revoke the proxy.
For the purposes of this section, every principal shall be presumed to have the capacity to revoke a health care proxy unless determined otherwise pursuant to court order.
A health care proxy shall also be revoked upon: (i) execution by the principal of a subsequent health care proxy, or (ii) the divorce or legal separation of the principal and his spouse, where the spouse is the principal's agent under a health care proxy.
A physician who is informed of or provided with a revocation of a health care proxy shall immediately record the revocation in the principal's medical record and notify orally and in writing the agent and any health care providers known by the physician to be involved in the principal's care of the revocation. Any agent or member of the nursing staff informed of or provided with a revocation of a health care proxy pursuant to this section shall immediately notify the attending physician of such revocation.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations
Chapter 201d - Health Care Proxies
Section 2 - Appointment of Health Care Agents; Execution of Proxy; Alternate Agents
Section 3 - Eligibility to Serve as Agent
Section 5 - Authority of Agent
Section 6 - Incapacity of Patient; Regained Capacity
Section 7 - Revocation of Proxy
Section 8 - Liability of Health Care Providers and Agents
Section 9 - Liability for Health Care Costs
Section 10 - Coercion; Execution of Proxy
Section 11 - Foreign Proxies; Enforceability
Section 12 - Suicide or Mercy Killing
Section 13 - Pain Alleviation; Comfort Care Procedures
Section 14 - Physicians; Refusal to Honor Proxy
Section 15 - Private Facilities; Refusal to Honor Proxy