A lasting power of attorney (LPA) allows you to appoint people you trust to make decisions on your behalf, including if you lose mental capacity.
We can help you put the right legal protections in place to safeguard your needs.
Types of LPA:
- property and financial affairs LPA: to manage your property, financial assets and your liabilities
- health and welfare LPA: to make decisions about life sustaining treatment, your medical care, living arrangements and personal welfare.
Why set up LPAs?
- Peace of mind that trusted individuals will act in your best interests when you need them to.
- Ensure your wishes are followed if you are unable to make decisions by creating workable terms in your LPAs.
- To avoid the delays, difficulties and costs that your family or others would face if they had to make an application to the Court of Protection instead.
We specialise in providing clear and practical advice on your options and in preparing LPAs to suit your needs and requirements.
We can prepare separate LPAs for business owners for their personal financial affairs and their business affairs. In doing so, we check the documentation relating to your business to ensure that there are no conflicts between your business arrangements and your LPAs.
We will liaise with your attorneys to provide them with guidance about their roles and completing the LPAs. We will also register your LPAs with the Office of the Public Guardian, ensuring that the LPAs are correctly completed which avoids issues and delays in the registration process.
We can also provide advice on issues arising from LPAs (including advice to attorneys), other powers of attorney including general powers of attorney and enduring powers of attorney (EPAs). We also make applications to the Court of Protection for individuals who can no longer make decisions themselves.
How we can help
Our powers of attorney service includes:
- appointing trusted individuals to make decisions for you under LPAs, safeguarding your needs
- providing clear advice and preparing LPAs tailored to your requirements
- for business owners, we can create separate LPAs for personal and business finances
- guiding your attorneys and offering expert advice on powers of attorney
- registering powers of attorney
- assisting with Court of Protection applications