New power of attorney guide

Primrose

AnneQ wrote: »

I’ve had my mums power of attorney returned and they are stating it’s been printed incorrectly. It says some of the pages are printed back to back ! How hard do they want to make this? It’s taken weeks to get my sister and I and the witness to sign in the correct order as we don’t live close to each other. This is madness!!

Not quite sure what you mean by some of the pages being printed back to back . Did you fill the forms in online and then just print the pages off in order so they could be signed and witnessed?

It,s a while sone we did ours so I'm trying to remember the process.
More importantly, did they tell you what you have to do to do it correctly and rectify your mistake?

Honey_Bear

AnneQ wrote: »

I’ve had my mums power of attorney returned and they are stating it’s been printed incorrectly. It says some of the pages are printed back to back ! How hard do they want to make this? It’s taken weeks to get my sister and I and the witness to sign in the correct order as we don’t live close to each other. This is madness!!

It's a pain, getting it reprinted and then resigned, but it's easier the second time around. (I managed to mis-spell my own surname without noticing!)

The second time I explained the situation to everyone and just sent them the appropriate page, in the right date order, with an SAE and they got everthing witnessed by friends and neighbours. It all came together very quickly.

At the end of the day, it's a very powerful legal document, and there's a reason solicitors etc charge an arm and a leg for doing them. We're doing it ourselves for free and learning by doing so. It's hardly surprising we make a mistake or two along the way, but it is worth it. I now understand the process, could re-do ours if anything happened to affect our situation, and both OH and I have worked through the ramifications of all of the choices we've made about our welfare if we're incapacitated. A lot of people refuse to think about all of that, or just want the process over and done with and don't think things through. You have, and your mother also has an opportunity to change anything she might have thought, on reflection after you sent the forms, could be slightly rejigged to suit you and her better.

Gers

Primrose wrote: »

Not quite sure what you mean by some of the pages being printed back to back . Did you fill the forms in online and then just print the pages off in order so they could be signed and witnessed?

It,s a while sone we did ours so I'm trying to remember the process.
More importantly, did they tell you what you have to do to do it correctly and rectify your mistake?

Think she means that the pages are two-sided rather than each page being separate. I suppose that makes it more difficult for organisations to photocopy the document.

I bought a stamp from Amazon with the correct wording for Scottish POAs which seems less onerous than needed elsewhere. My DM then signed each page, something she's struggle to do now.

maryroberts

For those of you who have been through the process - please can you clarify whether the pages need to be printed off single sided? I will shortly be printing out 4 LPA's at work ready to be signed by various parties - the printer defaults to double sided, so I don't want to have to go through it all again if they should be single sided?

Primrose

I,m unsure whether the office of Public Guardian issue any advice on this. I printed all ours off single sided because if you do them double sided there's a risk that an institution, when making a copy for their own records, may accidentally not copy one of the second sides, which could make the document invalid when needing to be possibly checked for reference later on.

negotiating this process can be fraught with some institutions at the best of times so in my view it's better to try any avoid any chance of potential accidents along the way.

One institution accidentally left the last page of the document in the photocopier . It was a good thing I was eagle eyed and double checked when it was handed back to me.

Keep_pedalling

maryroberts wrote: »

For those of you who have been through the process - please can you clarify whether the pages need to be printed off single sided? I will shortly be printing out 4 LPA's at work ready to be signed by various parties - the printer defaults to double sided, so I don't want to have to go through it all again if they should be single sided?

Yes they do, each page will be stamped by the OPG and that stamp uses holes punched through each page not ink.

ormonde

My husband and I have recently done our LPA and mine was printed double sided, my husbands was printed single sided. The OPG accepted both no questions asked.

Keep_pedalling

ormonde wrote: »

My husband and I have recently done our LPA and mine was printed double sided, my husbands was printed single sided. The OPG accepted both no questions asked.

I stand corrected.

ormonde

The one printed single sided does look a lot’ tidier’ than the double sided version.
The word ‘validated’ which is hole punched by the OPG is obviously back to front on some of the double sided pages. I had assumed it would be rubber stamped by the OPG. Personally if I had known it was validated by the hole punch method I would have done both single sided because it just looks so much better.

quietness

Hi, I'm helping my parents fill in the LPA forms and it seems fairly straight forward but I do have one query,
There are several pages that are optional and wanted to know if we still had to send those off with the rest of the form even if they are blank?
Thanks