Powers of Attorney (LPA)
Powers of Attorneys (LPAs) are documents written that enable you to give someone authority to manage your healthcare and finances when you can’t do so yourself. There are two kinds of LPA – Health & Welfare, and Property & Financial Affairs, which need to be properly written and registered with the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) before they are useable. The OPG are, quite rightly, very particular about granting powers of attorney and as such the writing and registering of LPAs must be done properly with a keen attention to detail and the OPG requirements.
Failure to have LPAs in place will mean someone will have to apply to the Court of Protection to become your Deputy, or the state will nominate someone which could be a professional person.
This can be a lengthy, costly and distressing process. And you cannot be certain your Deputy would be someone you’d choose, given the chance.
Additionally your Deputy will need to prepare, for example, annual accounts for the courts and pay annual fees.
There is no such thing as too soon to have LPAs in place, but it can certainly be too late.
Contact UsLPA’s process
1. Instructions Meeting
At a place and time to suit you we review your estate, discuss your options and take down your instructions.
2. Drafts Review
Your draft wills / LPA(s) are reviewed with you in person. Once we have your approval, we produce your originals.
3. Signing
A short final meeting to sign and witness your final documentation. And that’s it. Simple, stress free and effective.