Power of Attorney Kit

Name: Power of Attorney Kit
Brand: Lawpack
SKU: 00000093

£24.99

Reference: 9781910143100

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Format

England, Wales & Scotland - Kit

England, Wales & Scotland - electronic Kit

Product description

A Power of Attorney allows a relative or friend to be able to legally deal with your affairs. Lawpack’s step-by-step Kit helps you to arrange one yourself without solicitor fees.

Valid in England & Wales or Scotland, this Lawpack Kit shows you how to make:

A Lasting Power of Attorney (or a Continuing/Welfare Power of Attorney in Scotland), which lets someone make decisions about your property and personal welfare
A General Power (GPA), which allows you to appoint someone to manage your affairs for specific periods or events

Regularly checked and updated by solicitors, our Kit contains clear, step-by-step guidance and includes expert advice on how to complete the forms.

Expert, jargon-free guidance is given on:

The circumstances in which you might use Lasting Powers of Attorney forms, and how to complete them
How to make a General Power
How to appoint an Attorney, what their duties are, and how long the power remains in force
How to make Continuing, General and Welfare Powers of Attorney in Scotland
Registering an existing Enduring Power of Attorney if the Donor becomes mentally incapable

Template GPA forms are provided in both versions of our Kit (paper Kit and downloadable eKit).

The Lasting Power of Attorney forms are not included in the paper Kit, but easy online access is provided to all the LPA forms. The Lasting Power of Attorney forms, however, are included in our "Download Now" eKit.

What is a power of attorney?

As the population gets older, many of us find we need to give control of financial and legal matters to others.
And as more and more of us work abroad we find we need to give others the power to act on our behalf in certain matters.
A Power of Attorney is a legal document that allows this to be done.
It could, for example, allow someone to sign cheques and letters for you if you were going abroad for a while.
Or, if you became seriously ill, your business and personal interests could be looked after by someone you trust.

What power of attorney forms are needed?

Lasting Power of Attorney forms - England & Wales

The LPA comes in two versions:

The LPA for financial decisions (LP1F) gives someone the power to make decisions about your property and affairs.
The LPA for health and care decisions (LP1H) gives someone the power to make decisions about your personal welfare. This form only takes effect when you become mentally incapable.

Continuing/Welfare Power of Attorney forms - Scotland

These two power of attorney forms for Scotland deal with financial affairs and personal welfare under Scottish Law.
The WPA only takes effect when you become mentally incapable.

General Power form - England & Wales and Scotland

This is a straightforward GPA form for making a power of attorney in Scotland. It allows you to appoint an Attorney to manage your affairs for specific periods or events (e.g. if you go abroad and need to entrust the management of your business interests to your spouse). Unlike the LPA, this form ceases to take effect if you become mentally incapable.

Make sure it's clear who you trust to handle your affairs with Lawpack's simple-to-complete Kit.

More information on powers of attorney:

Technical Specifications

Contents of our Power of Attorney Kit

Guidance Manual contents:

How to use this Lawpack Kit

Powers of Attorney in England & Wales

What is a Power of Attorney?

Using a Power of Attorney

Enduring Powers of Attorney

Lasting Powers of Attorney

Important concepts

Capacity

’Best interests’

Life-sustaining treatment

’The five principles’

The Code of Practice

Lasting Powers of Attorney Property and Financial Affairs

The Code of Practice

What LPA PFAs apply to

What LPA PFAs do not apply to

Who may be an Attorney

How many Attorneys?

Revocation of an LPA PFA

Using an LPA PFA

Duties

Accounts and records

Gifts

Trustees

Sale of property and Wills

Disclaiming

Lasting Powers of Attorney for Health and Welfare

The Code of Practice

What LPA HWs apply to

What LPA HWs do not apply to

Relationship with Living Wills (Advance Decisions)

Who may be an Attorney

How many Attorneys?

Revocation of an LPA HW

Using the LPA HW

Duties

Gifts

Disclaiming

The Forms

Completing the Lasting Power of Attorney

Property and Financial Affairs and the

Lasting Power of Attorney for Health and Welfare

Decisions to be made

Completing the official part of the LPA

Registration

Notification and objections

The Court

LPA Top Tips

General Powers of Attorney

Introduction

Scope and restrictions

Duration

Completing your General Power

Enduring Powers of Attorney

What is an Enduring Power of Attorney?

Registration of an EPA

Notification

What if one or more of the Attorneys are also notifiable relatives?

Notifying the Donor

Is it always necessary to give notice to the Donor and/or to the relatives?

Who should give the notices if there is more than one Attorney?

Who must apply?

The application Form

What if there is financial hardship?

When must the Application be made?

Objections to the registration of the EPA

Grounds on which objections may be raised

Cancellation of registration

Summary of the registration process

Revocation

Powers of Attorney in Scotland

What is a Power of Attorney?

Continuing and Welfare Powers of Attorney

The benefits of a Continuing Power of Attorney

Must the CPA or WPA be in a particular form?

When does the CPA or WPA become effective?

Who may be a Granter and make a CPA or WPA?

What kind of authority can a Granter give in a CPA?

What kind of authority can a Granter give in a WPA?

Choosing your Attorney or Attorneys

Restrictions

Who may be an Attorney?

What an Attorney cannot do under a CPA

Standard of care

Disclosure of conflict

Confidentiality

Accounts

Compensation for work done as an Attorney

Resigning the role of Attorney

Completing the Form of CPA or WPA

The Certificate

Application for Registering the CPA or WPA

The Public Guardian

Where can I get more information about CPAs or WPAs?

General Powers of Attorney

Introduction

Scope and restrictions

Duration

Completing your General Power

Included loose leaf:

General Power of Attorney for England & Wales
General Power of Attorney for Scotland

Forms to download:

For England & Wales:

LP1F Lasting Power of Attorney Property and Financial Affairs
LP1H Lasting Power of Attorney Health and Welfare
LP3 Form to Notify People
Other useful Office of the Public Guardian forms and guidance notes

For Scotland:

Continuing Power of Attorney
Welfare Power of Attorney
Combined Continuing and Welfare Power of Attorney
Certificate under Section 15(3)(C) of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 for CPA
Certificate under Section 16(3)(C) of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 for WPA
Application for Registration of a Continuing Power of Attorney or Welfare Power of Attorney
Other useful Office of the Public Guardian forms and guidance notes

Choice you will need to make when ordering a Lawpack Power of Attorney Kit

FORMAT The Kit is available in 2 formats:

Paper Power of Attorney Kit by post –includes loose-leaf General Power of Attorney Forms and online access to all other forms
‘Download Now’ Ekit – available to download in one zip file

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