Can I act as an Attorney for 2 people on the same Lasting Power of Attorney

Nev60A

Can a Lasting Power of Attorney cover 2 doners on the same LPA. Covering Husband and Wife (Mother/Farther) for instance. Or do we need to take out 2 LPA’s, one for the Mother and on for the Farther. We haven’t started this process yet but I know I’m going to get asked this question.

Keep_pedalling

You need separate LPAs for each.

mrschaucer

And depending what you want them to cover, you might have to set up 2LPAs for each person.

Nev60A

Yes I suspected the same when I started looking a bit further but thanks for the replies.

Naomim

Great question as my in laws want me to set theirs up and I never even thought of them needing one each. 

tacpot12

They definitely need to make one each, (or two each if they want both a Financial and a Health & Welfare PoA). 

One Power of Attorney cannot be made by more than one person or cover the wishes of more than one person.   

elsien

When you think about it it wouldn’t be really workable would it? Just because people are married it doesn’t mean that they have the same financial attitudes, attitude to risk, wishes et cetera.

Even more so with health and welfare. What their choices might be around their life and medical options could be very different. Aside from the fact that health and welfare only kicks in when someone loses capacity, so how would that work on a joint LPA if one has capacity and one didn’t?