General Power of Attorney (England & Wales)

Need someone to manage your affairs?
This “Download Now” General Power of Attorney form allows a relative or friend to legally deal with your affairs for specific periods or events.

General Powers of Attorney are simple to create with Lawpack’s General Power of Attorney download, plus this general power of attorney form can help you save on solicitor's fees. 

This general power of attorney download has been approved by Richard Dew, barrister of Ten Old Square, Lincoln's Inn...so you can be sure that this General Power of Attorney form is legally binding and up to date.

What is a General Power of Attorney?

There may be specific events or periods of time when many of us find we need to give control of financial and legal matters to others.
As more and more of us work abroad, for example, we find we need to give others the power to act on our behalf in certain matters.

A General Power of Attorney is a legal document that allows this to be done.
A General Power of Attorney could, for example, allow someone to sign cheques and letters for you if you were going abroad for a while… if you have prepared a General Power of Attorney form.

When can a General Power of Attorney be used?

A General Power of Attorney applies only to your property and affairs. You cannot use a general power of attorney form to authorise someone to make decisions about your personal welfare.
This general power of attorney download does not allow you to grant authority to someone to perform in your role as a trustee or executor (i.e. administrator) of someone's estate.

Plus the General Power of Attorney form ceases to take effect if you become incapable of making decisions conferred in the General Power of Attorney.
If you want to make a power of attorney that remains valid if you become mentally incapable, then you should make a Lasting Power of Attorney.

There is no requirement for the General Power of Attorney form to be registered.

For the General Power of Attorney form to be valid, the 'Donor' (the person granting the Power) and the 'Attorney' (the person being granted the authority) must be over 18, have capacity to grant the general power of attorney and not be an undischarged or interim bankrupt.

Make sure it's clear who you trust to handle your affairs with Lawpack's simple-to-complete General Power of Attorney form.