Making a Lasting Power of Attorney

mrschaucer

Jointly and severally

Keep_pedalling

mrschaucer said:

Jointly and severally

I must be going round the twist

Ms_Chocaholic

When we did ours, a friend of the family acted as the certificate provider (we've known her 30+ years) and my partner and my daughter are my attorneys with my daughter's husband witnessing both their signatories so in total just 3 people needed.  All the signatures do not need to be done on the same day, the certificate provider can be done on one day and the attorneys/witness etc thereafter.

Doshwaster

I recently did the Health and Finance LPAs for my mum with me as the main attorney and my sister-in-law as a replacement. As long as your circumstances aren't complicated then it's a relatively simple process of filling in the forms online, printing them out, signing them and sending the papers off. The "certificate provider" can be a family friend and they can also be a witness.

Just take some time to double and triple check everything as we had one of the LPAs sent back as we'd missed one signature which delayed the process by a few weeks.