Living Wills

The New Jersey legislature is addressing the thorny issue of a person’s involvement with a spouse’s living will, a focal point of the Terri Schiavo case. Two bills are being considered. S-2519 would require marriage license issuers to give applicants a state-prepared booklet about advance directives. S-2520 would require judges in divorce and termination of domestic partnership actions to ask whether the parties want to change their advance directives. New Jersey Lawyer, June 8, 2005