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Fofacut

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Thinking of doing doing our Power of Attorney as Parents nominating our two kids. Trying to find out how easy it is to do it yourself rather than pay a solicitor. The obvious difference being cost,would be interested in comments from those who have completed this either with or without a solicitor.
 
I did it for my grandmother with me as PoA for health and finance. Get a solicitor to do it, its not hugely expensive and you know its done correctly.
 
If you are comfortable doing paperwork then it's pretty easy, all the guidance you need is on the gov.uk website.

If you don't like doing paperwork then get solicitor to do it.

Bit like DIY really, some people are totally comfortable with changing a tap for instance, for others you may as well be asking them to lead a mission to Mars.
 
I've done it for myself and wife, download them from the gov website, one for Health and Welfare, other for Finance, so in our case four to complete.
Once you have done one the others become much easier because it's repeating same questions.
Obtain all the necessary signatures and send it off to the Public Guardian's Office, if there is an issue, I.e you have filled something in incorrectly they come back to you and I believe you have one month to correct.
Once sorted they will send back POA and confirm registration so it's impossible not to know if there is an issue with registration.
Personally I wouldn't go anywhere near a solicitor the online info and downloading of forms is a much more cost effective way of doing it.
Meant to say during the process the nominated attorneys are advised they have been selected and have three weeks to decline so everyone is in the loop.
Hope this is of help.
 
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DIY option from Gov website is clearly explained and I had no problems following what was required.
All a solicitor will do is charge you for asking the same questions and make a nice profit from you.
Also by doing it yourself, you will know it's right as you have a vested interest.
 
Agree with those who say DIY is a cost effective option. We’ve done it for both parents. Just make sure you complete it correctly, as there’s a charge for each amendment.
 
Yes, easy enough to do yourself. I did financial one and health one for my Mum. Just make sure you get everything signed in the right order.
 
Just done it for me and Mrs Norfolk.
Agree with all the recommendations about DIY. All completely explained

Only caveat is about making sure you get all the signatures in the right order Our witness signed everything with the wrong date so we had to do it all again.
 
BaronSmoggie said:
I did it for my grandmother with me as PoA for health and finance. Get a solicitor to do it, its not hugely expensive and you know its done correctly.
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I would recommend using your solicitor - it can work out much cheaper in the long run. ie I am finding more and more banks want to see the forms signed by a solicitor. Lots of places want them sent away to their head office. So you might need to go back and forth to a solicitor. But I found my solicitor was cheaper than doing it through another company.
 
fmttmadmin said:
I would recommend using your solicitor - it can work out much cheaper in the long run. ie I am finding more and more banks want to see the forms signed by a solicitor. Lots of places want them sent away to their head office. So you might need to go back and forth to a solicitor. But I found my solicitor was cheaper than doing it through another company.
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Which solicitor did you use?
 
Fofacut said:
Thinking of doing doing our Power of Attorney as Parents nominating our two kids. Trying to find out how easy it is to do it yourself rather than pay a solicitor. The obvious difference being cost,would be interested in comments from those who have completed this either with or without a solicitor.
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Relatively easy via the government website. Did one with my Dad for both recently. I think they took a couple of months to come back. You just need to set aside some time and have someone to witness the signatures/statements.

Edit - by both I mean the property one and the health one.
 
fmttmadmin said:
I would recommend using your solicitor - it can work out much cheaper in the long run. ie I am finding more and more banks want to see the forms signed by a solicitor. Lots of places want them sent away to their head office. So you might need to go back and forth to a solicitor. But I found my solicitor was cheaper than doing it through another company.
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There is a government service now where you create an online account and when you want to register the LPA with a bank you just send them a code & they can verify the LPA. Very easy to use & completely free.

Use LPA
 
I'm usually useless at that sort of thing but found the whole process incredibly simple using the online forms, was all very straightforward.
 
BoroBosco said:
There is a government service now where you create an online account and when you want to register the LPA with a bank you just send them a code & they can verify the LPA. Very easy to use & completely free.

Use LPA
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Yeah ignore my post, do that instead. It wasn't available when I had to do it.
 
HNW Law in Middlesbrough will do this at a very reasonable cost, they done my Mother in Laws, i would highly recommend them.
 
Did it online. Just follow the instructions. The main thing is to get the required signatures on the form in THE CORRECT ORDER, TIME / DATE WISE. (y)
 
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Yeah, I did it myself too. Really simple through governments website. Waste of money using a solicitor
 
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