New Lasting Powers of Attorney forms

New forms making it easier to protect your future by registering Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPA) are now available for the public to use.

Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs) allow you to nominate someone you trust to make decisions about your financial and/or personal affairs if an accident or illness prevents you from being able do so yourself at some time in the future.

The person you is known as the attorney and can be a family member, a trsuted friend or your solicitor. If you appoint a soliciotr then you are protected by the very strcit conduct rules affecting solicitors as well as protection of your assets.

There are two new forms, one relating to Property and Financial Affairs and the other to Health and Welfare.

LPAs should be drawn up with the help of a solicitor in order to protect your interests and to ensure that they fully represent your wishes. The LPA then needs to be registered with the Office of the Public Guardian for a fee of £120 before they can be used.

Justice Minister Bridget Prentice, said: “An accident or illness that robs you of your ability to make decisions is traumatic enough without having legal worries to contend with too. This is a straightforward solution, now all the more simpler, that makes sure the legal system protects and helps people rather than hindering them, exactly as it should do.”

The new forms were designed with help from Solicitors for the Elderly, Society of Trust and Estates Practitioners and the Law Society.

Please contact us if you would like more information about Lasting Powers of Attorney.

We offer a special fixed prioce service for preparatin and registration of Lasting Powers of Attorney.