What Do I Need to Sign My Healthcare Proxy in South Carolina?

Notarization is not required for a healthcare proxy to be valid in South Carolina.S.C. Code Ann. § 62-5-503Verified Jul 15, 2026

South Carolina has not authorized Remote Online Notarization. In-person notarization is required for all documents, including healthcare proxies.

To execute a healthcare proxy in South Carolina: Find 2 adults to serve as witnesses. Review witness restrictions to ensure eligibility. Give copies to your healthcare agent and doctors. 2 witnesses must be physically present, so the signing cannot be completed remotely

Generally yes. South Carolina accepts out-of-state healthcare directives in practice, but doesn't have an explicit reciprocity statute, so recognition rests on hospital practice and emergency-care doctrine.S.C. Code Ann. § 62-5-502(b)Verified Jul 15, 2026 SC has its own Statutory Health Care Power of Attorney Act (§§ 62-5-501 to 62-5-518, restructured by 2016 Act 279), not UHCDA. Out-of-state recognition keys on PLACE OF EXECUTION, not the principal's domicile: § 62-5-501(2) defines the natural-death declaration to include "a similar document executed in accordance with the law of another state," and § 62-5-502(b) addresses a durable health care POA "executed... under the laws of another state" — nonconforming ones are not governed by this section, though a court "is not precluded from determining that the law applicable... is the same as the law set forth in this section." SC has no mandatory valid-where-executed reciprocity statute. (Separately, § 62-5-517 is an INTRA-state substantial-compliance path — a non-form document with the agent's name/address, decision types, the principal's signature, two qualifying witnesses, and a notary attestation is deemed to comply with this part — not an interstate-recognition provision.) The document portability tool covers reciprocity rules in detail.