How to revoke a power of attorney in Georgia

What Georgia 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. Since 2018, Georgia law does not require a particular method. You may send the agent notice of the revocation by certified mail or statutory overnight delivery and file that notice, with proof the agent received it, with the clerk of superior court in the county where you live, to establish that the agent knew of the revocation.

Words used in Georgia

In Georgia you name an agent for money and property in a financial power of attorney, and a health care agent in the Georgia Advance Directive for Health Care, which also holds your treatment wishes. If an adult cannot manage and has no documents, the probate court can appoint a guardian, a conservator, or both.

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; statutory form power of attorney (Georgia Statutory Financial Power of Attorney)
The person you choose
Agent (the law treats 'attorney-in-fact' as the same thing)
Health care
Georgia Advance Directive for Health Care (Part One names a health care agent)
Treatment wishes
Treatment preferences (Part Two of the Georgia Advance Directive for Health Care); older living wills signed before July 1, 2007 still count
Court-appointed decision-maker
Guardian (decisions about the person) and conservator (property and money); the adult is the 'ward'

What Georgia law says about revoking a power of attorney

How to revoke

You can revoke your power of attorney or an agent's authority. Since 2018, Georgia law does not require a particular method. You may send the agent notice of the revocation by certified mail or statutory overnight delivery and file that notice, with proof the agent received it, with the clerk of superior court in the county where you live, to establish that the agent knew of the revocation. A new power of attorney revokes an earlier one only if it says so.

Telling others

Also tell banks and others who have a copy. An agent or other person who acts in good faith without actual knowledge that the power of attorney or the agent's authority has ended is protected, and the act binds you.

Law: O.C.G.A. § 10-6B-10(a), (b), (d), (f), (g) (as amended by 2018 H.B. 897)

Source: Official text

Free letter: revoke a power of attorney

The date on the document you signed. If you are not sure, use your best estimate.

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When it ends and how to revoke it

It ends when
  • You die
  • You become incapacitated, if the document says it is not durable
  • You revoke it or the agent's authority
  • The agent resigns, becomes incapacitated or dies, or you revoke the agent's authority, and no other agent is named
  • The document says it ends
  • Its purpose is accomplished
  • An action is filed for divorce, annulment or legal separation from an agent who is your spouse
  • A court appoints a conservator for you, for matters within the conservatorship, unless the document or the court says otherwise
Banks and other businesses

A person must accept an attested statutory form power of attorney, or within 7 business days ask for an agent's certification, a translation or a lawyer's opinion, and then accept it within 5 business days after receiving it, unless a legal reason to refuse applies (for example, good-faith belief it is invalid, or a report of suspected abuse to protective services). A person may not demand a different form. Someone who wrongly refuses can be ordered by a court to accept it and must pay reasonable attorney's fees and litigation costs. A photocopy or electronically sent copy has the same effect as the original.

Law: O.C.G.A. 10-6B-19, 10-6B-20; O.C.G.A. 10-6B-6(c)

Law: O.C.G.A. §§ 10-6B-8(b), 10-6B-10 (as amended by 2018 H.B. 897)

Good to know in Georgia

  • Since 2018, a Georgia financial power of attorney needs one witness and a notary; the notary cannot be the witness, and neither can be named as your agent.

    Law: O.C.G.A. 10-6B-5, as amended by 2018 H.B. 897

  • Georgia law no longer requires certified mail to revoke a power of attorney, but you may send notice by certified mail or statutory overnight delivery and file it with the superior court clerk to prove the agent knew.

    Law: O.C.G.A. 10-6B-10(g)

  • No power of attorney can let an agent make or revoke your will, or vote for you.

    Law: O.C.G.A. 10-6B-40(h)

  • The Georgia Advance Directive for Health Care needs two witnesses but no notary.

    Law: O.C.G.A. Chapter 32 of Title 31

    Source: DHS form

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