Everyone wants to live a long and healthy life and to keep control of their affairs for as long as they can. A Lasting Power of Attorney can give peace of mind to you and your loved ones, just in case things don’t go quite as planned. Some frequently asked questions include:
What is a Lasting Powers of Attorney?
A Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPA) is a legal document that appoints a trusted person (your ‘attorney’) to make decisions for you if you are no longer able to make them yourself. This might happen if you are ill or injured or, more often, simply as a result of getting older. There are two types of LPA:
Property & Financial Affairs
Your appointed attorney will be allowed to manage your bank accounts, property and investments, deal with issues arising from your property and investments look after your home and pay your bills and even sell your property. You decide whether you want this power of attorney to be eligible for use immediately or only if you no longer have mental capacity.
Health & Welfare
This allows you give the legal power to someone you trust to make decisions on your behalf about things like your medical treatment and where you should live in case you later become unable to make decisions for yourself.
You’ll also need to choose whether or not you want your attorney to be able to make decisions about whether or not to continue with medical treatment if there is no chance you will recover.
You decide whether your attorney can be allowed to make this decision, if you are unable to take these yourself. If you choose not to, then all decisions about life-sustaining treatment will be made by your healthcare team.
Category
- Senior Partner
- Partner
- Assistant Solicitor
- Trainee/Caseworker
Hourly Fee
- £300.00
- £250.00
- £200.00
- £150.00
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