Agreement requirements - signature - witnesses or notary public

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 15-14-805, under Supported Decision-Making Agreement for Adults with a Disability.

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 15-14-805

(1) A supported decision-making agreement may be in any form but is valid only if it contains, at a minimum, the following: (a) The name of the adult with a disability; (b) The name, address, phone number, and email address of the member of the supportive community, if applicable; (c) A list of decisions the adult with a disability requests the member of the supportive community to advise the adult with a disability on; (d) A description of the member of the supportive community ‘s agreement terms, including, at a minimum, the agreement term to: (I) Provide information as requested by the adult with a disability; (II) Respect that the final and ultimate decision is the adult with the disability ‘s and not the member of the supportive community ‘s; (III) Not coerce or manipulate the adult with the disability into making any decision; and (IV) Provide the most up-to-date and relevant information to the adult with the disability based on all the available and known information the member of the supportive community has. (e) A notice that any mandatory reporter, as described in section 18-6.5-108, who is relying on the supported decision-making agreement and has cause to believe that the adult with a disability is being mistreated, as defined in section 18-6.5-102 (10.5), by the member of the supportive community, shall report the alleged mistreatment to adult protective services; and (f) The day, month, and year the agreement was entered into.

(a) The name of the adult with a disability;

(b) The name, address, phone number, and email address of the member of the supportive community, if applicable;

(c) A list of decisions the adult with a disability requests the member of the supportive community to advise the adult with a disability on;

(d) A description of the member of the supportive community ‘s agreement terms, including, at a minimum, the agreement term to: (I) Provide information as requested by the adult with a disability; (II) Respect that the final and ultimate decision is the adult with the disability ‘s and not the member of the supportive community ‘s; (III) Not coerce or manipulate the adult with the disability into making any decision; and (IV) Provide the most up-to-date and relevant information to the adult with the disability based on all the available and known information the member of the supportive community has.

(I) Provide information as requested by the adult with a disability;

(II) Respect that the final and ultimate decision is the adult with the disability ‘s and not the member of the supportive community ‘s;

(III) Not coerce or manipulate the adult with the disability into making any decision; and

(IV) Provide the most up-to-date and relevant information to the adult with the disability based on all the available and known information the member of the supportive community has.

(e) A notice that any mandatory reporter, as described in section 18-6.5-108, who is relying on the supported decision-making agreement and has cause to believe that the adult with a disability is being mistreated, as defined in section 18-6.5-102 (10.5), by the member of the supportive community, shall report the alleged mistreatment to adult protective services; and

(f) The day, month, and year the agreement was entered into.

(2) A supported decision-making agreement must be signed voluntarily, without coercion or undue influence, by the adult with a disability and each member of the supportive community in the presence of two or more attesting and disinterested witnesses who are eighteen years of age or older, or a notary public.