Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) Solicitors – Ensuring your voice is heard

Lasting Power of Attorney – Health and Welfare

Under this Power your Attorney/s can make decisions on your behalf in connection with your personal welfare. This may include liaising with care providers or doctors as well as consenting to or refusing consent to life sustaining treatment.

Lasting Power of Attorney – Property and Financial Affairs

Under this Power your Attorney/s can make decisions on your behalf with respect to your property and finances. This might include running your bank and savings accounts, managing investments or selling property including your home.

Lasting Power of Attorney – Business

As a business owner, the persons you choose to manage your personal affairs may be different to those that you would need to run your business. You can therefore also make a separate Lasting Power of Attorney for your business. You appoint a trusted individual who knows your business and can take over the day-to-day management. The bank will also allow access to business accounts. Without a Lasting Power of Attorney in place the bank will freeze accounts until a Deputyship Order is obtained from the Court of Protection. This process could take up to six months and during this time, no one can make key decisions or access any accounts connected to the business.

If you are a partner or director your business may already have provisions in place to ensure continuity of the business, for example within a shareholders agreement. If you are in any doubt about what is included contact us for legal advice.

Enduring Powers of Attorney

These Powers predate Lasting Powers and are still valid but do not authorise your Attorney/s to take decisions regarding your Health and Welfare. Your Attorney/s will, in the absence of any restriction, be able to act on your behalf immediately. However, the Attorney/s must register the document with the Court of Protection once they believe you are beginning to or have lost capacity.

General powers

General powers allow you to appoint an Attorney to assist you with your finances or property. The Attorney’s authority to act can be limited to a specific transaction such as the sale of a property. Authority under a General Power ceases should you lose capacity.

Deputyship Order & Court of Protection

A Deputyship Order is issued by the Court of Protection when a loved one has already lost mental capacity, and no Lasting Power of Attorney is in place. This can be a complex application process, and the resulting delay may force your family to use their own resources to pay for care until legal authority is granted. We provide expert legal support to manage this application for you, guiding you through the complex rules and procedures to gain the authority you need as quickly as possible.

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Accredited experts – As members of STEP (The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners), we are acknowledged Trust and Estate Practitioners. We also hold the Lexcel accreditation, – the Law Society’s quality mark for excellence in legal practice management and excellence in client care.

Specialist Certificate Provider – We can act as your Certificate Provider, which is a crucial independent role required by law to confirm you have the mental capacity to make the LPA and are not acting under duress.

Integrated legal services – As a multiservice law firm, our team can also advise you on how your LPA interacts with your Will, your residential property ownership, and any commercial property or business interests you may have.

Compassionate guidance – We appreciate the personal nature of these decisions, offering support and clear explanations throughout the process, including the vital step of registering the LPA with the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG).

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Retrieve a Will, Lasting Power of Attorney, or Deeds from our archives

If you need to retrieve a Will, Lasting Power of Attorney, or Deeds from our secure archive, you can find out how to do that on our document retrieval page.

Retrieving a Will, LPA or deeds.

The cost of a Lasting Power of Attorney and Deputyship Order

Visit our pricing page to learn more about the costs of preparing and registering Lasting Powers of Attorney.

For complex matters, such as full Deputyship Order applications or Court of Protection issues, we provide a cost guide.

The costs for a Lasting Power of Attorney and Deputyship Order