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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 404.855

  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC

A third person, if acting in good faith, may rely and act on the instruction of and deal with the attorney in fact acting pursuant to the authority granted in a power of attorney for health care without liability to the patient or the patient’s successors in interest.