Signing checklist for Alaska

The signing steps in Alaska law, step by step. Pick your documents to see them.

Checked against official sources: October 31, 2026.

Short answer

This checklist lists the signing rules in Alaska law. It does not check whether your document is valid.

Financial power of attorney: Notarized
Health care directive: Notarized or signed by two adult witnesses

Financial power of attorney: Alaska

Choose your form General Power of Attorney, with optional provisions in AS 13.26.650. You do not have to use it. Optional: a person 'may execute a statutory power of attorney set out in substantially the following form'. You mark YES next to each category of powers; unmarked categories are not granted. The form ends with a notary acknowledgment. If someone signs for you, that person cannot be an agent named in the power of attorney. Official text
Law: AS 13.26.645, 13.26.650, 13.26.660
Sign it Signed by you. If you are physically unable to sign, you can direct another person, in your conscious presence, to sign your name; the statutory form says that person cannot be an agent named in it.
Law: AS 13.26.600
Notary or witnesses A power of attorney signed in Alaska is valid if you sign it (or direct someone to sign for you because you are physically unable) and acknowledge the signature before a notary public or other official authorized to take acknowledgments. No witnesses are required.
Law: AS 13.26.600

Health care directive: Alaska

Choose your form Advance Health Care Directive. You do not have to use it. Official text
Law: AS 13.52.300
Sign it Written, dated and signed by you (an adult).
Law: AS 13.52.010(a)-(e), (l)
Notary or witnesses The durable power of attorney for health care must be signed in front of two qualified witnesses who know you, or acknowledged before a notary public in Alaska. Individual instructions can be oral or written; a written instruction that is valid by itself still counts even if the agent part of the same paper was not properly witnessed.
Law: AS 13.52.010(a)-(e), (l)
Who cannot witness Witnesses must be personally known to you and must see you sign or acknowledge your signature. A witness cannot be your agent, a health care provider employed at the institution or facility where you are receiving care, or an employee of your health care provider or of that institution or facility. At least one witness must not be related to you by blood, marriage or adoption and must not be entitled to part of your estate under your will or by law. If you use a notary instead, the acknowledgment must be taken at a place in Alaska.
Law: AS 13.52.010(a)-(e), (l)
If you live in a nursing facility Health care providers employed where you are receiving care, and employees of your provider or that institution or facility, cannot witness. Unless related to you, an owner, operator or employee of the health care institution where you receive care cannot be your agent.
Law: AS 13.52.010(a)-(e), (l)

After signing

Give copies to the right people Keep the signed documents in a safe place and give copies to your health care proxy and your doctors. Some states have registries that store an advance directive for doctors and your proxy.

Signing checklist

This checklist lists the signing rules in Alaska law. It does not check whether your document is valid.

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