Advance Instructions in the Community of Madrid: a Dynamic document

Abstract

It is about demonstrating that the Document of Advance Instructions in the Autonomous Community of Madrid, which in other Autonomous Communities have chosen to name as: advance directive document, advance directive statements, advance directive declaration, advance directives or advance expression of wills, or which is colloquially known as a living will, or in Anglo-Saxon countries as living wills, it is a living and dynamic document as it can be modified, replaced or revoked, provided that the grantor wishes to do so and is in power carry it out by complying with the requirements established by law, such as being able and doing it freely. A comparison is made with what happens in other countries in our European environment, the similarities with the inheritance will are analyzed as it is the most similar legal figure and we proceed to study what happens for these purposes, specifically in the Community of Madrid.