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When you use our service you can be assured that you are dealing with a professional organisation with many years experience in this field.

Your LPA document will be posted to you, fully completed on your behalf and requiring only the signatures of you, your witnesses, and your Attorneys.

NB: Your Certificate Provider(s) must complete their short section in their own hand for the document to be legal.

The signing process can differ according to what is contained in the LPA, but this will not be a problem for you because we will give you detailed step-by-step instructions for what to do.

The questionnaire is a simple form and allows you to complete an LPA-PA which relates to your Property & Affairs.

A ‘Lasting Power of Attorney - Property & Affairs’ (‘LPA-PA’) allows you to appoint somebody to look after your money and property and other related affairs if for any reason you become unable to manage them yourself e.g.
You suffer an accident and are confined to bed or hospital
You suffer a more serious accident which permanently incapacitates you
You become mentally incapacitated or develop dementia as a result of old age or for some other reason

A ‘Lasting Power of Attorney – Personal Welfare’ (‘LPA-PW’) allows you to appoint somebody to make personal health and welfare (including, if you specify in the LPA-PW, life-sustaining treatment) decisions on your behalf if for any reason you become unable to make them yourself e.g.
You suffer an accident and are confined to bed or hospital
You suffer a more serious accident which permanently incapacitates you
You become mentally incapacitated or develop dementia as a result of old age or for some other reason

The questionnaire is a simple multiple-choice format and allows you to complete either just an LPA-PA, if you want an LPA-PW then please contact us by telephone and we can help you out with our more personal service.

Everybody who makes a Will should also make a Lasting Power of Attorney - Property & Affairs (an 'LPA-PA'), because if you care enough about what happens to your assets after you die, you ought to care even more about keeping them safe whilst you are alive.

While a Will ensures that your estate is distributed according to your wishes when you die, an LPA-PA protects your assets by authorising somebody chosen by you to deal with your property and affairs on your behalf should you become unable to manage them yourself whilst you are alive.

A Lasting Power of Attorney - Property & Affairs (an 'LPA-PA') is a document that you sign to appoint somebody to act for you in matters concerning your property and affairs, should you for any reason become unable to manage them yourself.

Your Lasting Power of Attorney is a complex document with 25 pages but don't worry - we take all the pain out of the process of creating it.

What if I don't have an LPA-PA?
If you do not have an LPA-PA, then, if for any reason you suddenly become unable to manage your own affairs, e.g.
You suffer an accident and are confined to bed or hospital
You suffer a more serious accident which permanently incapacitates you
You become mentally incapacitated as a result of old age or for some other reason

In these circustances, without an LPA, the only way that your financial affairs can be managed is by an application (by a relative or other person close to you) to the Court of Protection. This can take a very long time, sometimes up to 10 months, and can cost a lot of money to process - during which time your finances could be seriously damaged - and the person authorised to handle your affairs on your behalf is not only unlikely to be who you would have chosen, but may even be a Court Official - who can and will charge every time they act for you.

However, if you do have an LPA-PA, your chosen representatives can act for you straight away if you become unable to handle your own affairs.

Note that you must be mentally capable to make an LPA-PA. Therefore - just like a Will - if you don't have one then by the time you really need one it's too late.

How much does it cost and how do I make one?
The cost of an LPA-PA using this site is £49 per person.

Making an LPA-PA on this site is easy, just fill in the form, make payment and we'll produce the documents necessary.

Finally, the LPA-PA cannot be used until is has been registered at the Office of the Public Guardian (the 'OPG').

Registering the LPA-PA is your responsibility (although to help you we make blank registration forms available for download from our website) and can be done at any time between the LPA-PA being made and the moment that it is required to be used. Therefore the £120 is not a fee you need to pay straight away - indeed if the LPA-PA is never required to be used then it need never be paid at all.

Our own Solicitors was involved in the design of this site and your LPA is generated from software approved by the Society of Will Writers and used by lawyers up and down the country.

As an extra safeguard for total peace of mind, every LPA purchased from this site is individually written and checked by a professionally qualified Willwriter.

We will never reveal, give, or sell your details to any third party and you can ask us to remove your details entirely from our system at any time.

We are Members of the Society of Willwriters who are the UK's most respected regulatory body for the Willwriting Profession and we have £2.5million Professional Indemnity Insurance.