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South Carolina · Through 2025 Session of the General Assembly

S.C. Code Ann. § 62-5-514: Criminal liability.

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  1. Title 62 - SOUTH CAROLINA PROBATE CODE
  2. ARTICLE 5 Protection of Persons Under Disability and Their Property
  3. Part 5 Health Care Powers of Attorney

If a person coerces or fraudulently induces another person to execute a health care power of attorney, falsifies or forges a health care power of attorney, or wilfully conceals, cancels, obliterates, or destroys a revocation of a health care power of attorney, and the principal dies as a result of the withdrawal or withholding of treatment pursuant to the health care power of attorney, that person is subject to prosecution in accordance with the criminal laws of this State.

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