How to revoke a power of attorney in Colorado

What Colorado law says about revoking a power of attorney, and a free letter you can fill in and print.

Checked against official sources: October 31, 2026.

Short answer

You can revoke your power of attorney or an agent's authority. Colorado's Uniform Power of Attorney Act does not set a required form or method for revoking.

Words used in Colorado

In Colorado you name an agent for money and property in a power of attorney, and an agent for health care in a medical durable power of attorney. A separate declaration (living will) covers life-sustaining treatment if you are terminally ill or in a persistent vegetative state. If an adult cannot manage and less restrictive means will not work, a court can appoint a guardian for personal decisions and a conservator for property.

An agent (also called an attorney-in-fact) is the person you choose to act for you. You are the principal.

Money and property
Power of attorney; Colorado Statutory Form Power of Attorney
The person you choose
Agent (the law also accepts 'attorney-in-fact')
Health care
Medical durable power of attorney
Treatment wishes
Declaration as to medical treatment (living will) under the Colorado Medical Treatment Decision Act
Court-appointed decision-maker
Guardian (personal and health decisions) and conservator (money and property), each limited or unlimited; emergency guardian

What Colorado law says about revoking a power of attorney

How to revoke

You can revoke your power of attorney or an agent's authority. Colorado's Uniform Power of Attorney Act does not set a required form or method for revoking. Signing a new power of attorney does not revoke an old one unless the new one says so.

Law: C.R.S. 15-14-710(6)

Telling others

Revocation does not affect an agent or other person who acts in good faith without actual knowledge of it; their acts still bind you. A person asked to accept the power of attorney does not have to accept it if they actually know the agent's authority or the power of attorney has ended.

Law: C.R.S. 15-14-710(4); C.R.S. 15-14-720

Law: C.R.S. §§ 15-14-710, 15-14-720

Source: Official text

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When it ends and how to revoke it

It ends when
  • You die
  • You become incapacitated, if the power of attorney is not durable
  • You revoke the power of attorney
  • The power of attorney says it ends
  • Its purpose is accomplished
  • You revoke the agent's authority, or the agent dies, becomes incapacitated or resigns, and no other agent is named
  • For a spouse-agent, when an action for divorce, annulment or legal separation is filed, unless the document says otherwise
Banks and other businesses

For an acknowledged (notarized) power of attorney, a person must accept it, or ask for an agent's certification, an English translation or a lawyer's opinion, within 7 business days, and then accept within 5 business days after receiving it. It may not demand a different form. Exceptions include not otherwise dealing with you, a good-faith belief the power is invalid, and a report of suspected abuse. Wrongful refusal can lead to a court order and liability for attorney's fees and costs. The optional agent's certification form is in C.R.S. 15-14-742.

Law: C.R.S. 15-14-719, 15-14-720

Law: C.R.S. § 15-14-710

Good to know in Colorado

  • A Colorado financial power of attorney does not need a notary or witnesses to be valid, but banks' duty to accept it applies only to a notarized (acknowledged) one.

    Law: C.R.S. 15-14-705, 15-14-719, 15-14-720

  • Filing for divorce or legal separation ends a spouse-agent's financial authority; for a medical agent, the divorce or separation itself revokes the appointment.

    Law: C.R.S. 15-14-710(2)(c); C.R.S. 15-14-506(5)(c)

  • Colorado has no ranked family list for medical decisions: family and close friends must agree on one proxy decision-maker.

    Law: C.R.S. 15-18.5-103

  • HB 26-1100 (2026) adds a Guardianship Bill of Rights for wards and a 30-day notice before a permanent move to a nursing home or restrictive facility.

    Law: C.R.S. 15-14-103, 15-14-314(2)(h)

Changes in 2024–2026

HB 26-1100 (signed by the Governor May 29, 2026; Session Laws 2026, chapter 227; effective August 12, 2026): adds C.R.S. 15-14-103 Guardianship Bill of Rights (rights kept by the ward; decisions a court may give the guardian; the ward keeps the rights to vote, reproductive health and marital status unless the order restricts them) and 15-14-314(2)(h). HB 26-1040 (became law, 2026) changed sterilization rules for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship, and Other Protective Arrangements Act was introduced in 2024 and 2025 and was lost both times. No 2024-2026 bills found amending the Uniform Power of Attorney Act, the Patient Autonomy Act or the Medical Treatment Decision Act.

Law: SB 24-136; SB 25-134

Source: 30 days' notice to the ward before a permanent move to a restrictive facility

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