Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPA)
Anyone can lose the ability to manage their own affairs through accident, illness, or injury. A Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) ensures that someone you’ve chosen can manage your financial and welfare needs, on your behalf, when you are no longer able to manage them for yourself.
Get in touch todayA Lasting Power of Attorney or LPA is a legal document that sets out a plan for what will happen to you if you lose capacity and become unable to make decisions for yourself in the future. It allows you to appoint one or more people to help you to make decisions, or to make decisions on your behalf, if you are no longer able. This person is known as your ‘attorney’, and you can choose what decisions they are allowed to make for you.
What are the different types of Lasting Powers of Attorney?
There are two different types of LPA you can make and we can help you with both. You may decide to make either one or both together:
Lasting Power of Attorney Health and Welfare
A health & welfare attorney could make decisions about health care, medical treatment, where you live, and day-to-day matters such as your diet, clothes and daily routine. A Health and Welfare LPA can also include the power to accept or refuse life-sustaining treatment on your behalf.
Lasting Power of Attorney Property and Financial Affairs
A Property and Affairs LPA provides your chosen attorney with the ability to manage your finances and property. This could include paying your bills, collecting your income and benefits, managing bank and savings accounts, making or selling investments, or buying and selling your house. You can limit the decisions that your attorneys are allowed to make, or place conditions on what they can do. Once registered, a property and affairs LPA can be used even if you are still able to deal with these things yourself.
An LPA can only be used after it has been registered at the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG). You must be 18 or over and have the ability to make your own decisions when you make your LPA.
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Why choose Fishers Solicitors for your Lasting Power of Attorney?
Since an LPA is a powerful document, you should always seek professional advice and assistance in drafting and registering an LPA.
Fishers Solicitors Lasting Power of Attorney Solicitors can help you to understand the important decisions, and the implications those decisions could have. Our team of professional lasting powers of attorney advisors have advised on many LPAs and can explain the different considerations you must make.
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