Category: attorney

These can also give someone permission to manage your property and finances on your behalf. Unlike a property and affairs LPA, a health and welfare LPA cannot be used to make decisions about your welfare or treatment that you can …

If you are unable to collect your benefits or tax credits for any reason, you might want someone else to collect them for you. Once your PoA is registered with us it will last unless you decide to cancel it. …

If you want power of attorney to look after someone’s personal welfare, you may be able to take out a personal welfare lasting power of attorney. A property and financial affairs LPA must be registered before it can be used. …

An LPA can only be used once is has been registered with the Office of the Public Guardian. A health and welfare LPA does not come into force until the donor has lost the capacity to make decisions for themselves. …

At one time barristers had sole rights to appear in the High Court and the court of appeal and the house of Lords but this monopoly is now disappearing. There are two types of Lasting Powers of Attorney, one for …

If an attorney becomes bankrupt, power of attorney may be taken away. You should also make an LPA if you have been diagnosed with, or think you might develop, an illness which might prevent you from making decisions for yourself …

Attorneys appointed to act together – this means they must always act together. The advantage of this arrangement is that it makes it harder for an attorney to commit fraud or do something against the interests of the donor. The …

You might need to do this if an urgent decision needed to be made to protect someone’s health or safety. It is also possible to apply for an interim order, for example, if urgent action was needed to pay someone’s …