Creating a Power of Attorney for myself and my wife without a solicitor-please read

jnielow

Hi All, I hope I have posted in correct section!

Have not posted for quite a while but, have been watching Martins shows before Xmas and always listen to Martin on his Radio 5Live spot.

Have been toying with getting this done for about 3 years, but now need to sort!. My parents did their POAs last year and I was involved with the paperwork. I have been doing research on how to complete them and the pitfulls etc. I was abit shocked at the cost I was quoted by my parents solicitors for them to do mine and my wifes coupled with the cost of registering them also. 

I am looking at going it alone and completing the forms myself the basis of our POA's are myself and my wife Finance/Health for both of us so x4 x2 Attorneys our daughter and son. No other special conditions/or instructions.

I wish to ask the following questions:

1/ Can I use a registered Nurse as my certificate provider?

2/ Can the Registered Nurse (Certificate Provider) witness our signatures (Donors) and (Attorneys) our daughter and son?

3/ When I post back the forms (x92) to the Office of Public Guardian do I enclose the cheque in with the paperwork?

4/ Should I send the paperwork recorded delivery/registered post?

5/ As I am not involving a Solicitor (like my parents) is it ok to use me (Donor) to receive contact/emails etc from Office of Public Guardian to say yes it been registered and receive access codes to view POA's online and give these codes to the Attorneys.?

I appreciate its alot of questions to ask but the more I read about POA's the more mine fields I seem to find. Any pointers or help would be welcomed!.

Kind Regards

Jason 

Flugelhorn

you can use anyone for certificate provider

There are two types of certificate provider:

• a ‘knowledge-based’ provider – someone who has known the donor personally for at least two years, such as a friend, neighbour, colleague or former colleague
• a ‘skills-based’ provider with relevant professional skills – such as the donor’s GP, a healthcare professional or a solicitor, who can show relevant expertise in determining mental capacity

TBH as a "skills based provider" I used to suggest that people just went for a friend or colleague to do it - a skills based provider would be expected to have more experience about assessing capacity and hence may be more open to challenges in the future should anyone wish to do so 

Marcon

jnielow said:

Hi All, I hope I have posted in correct section!

Have not posted for quite a while but, have been watching Martins shows before Xmas and always listen to Martin on his Radio 5Live spot.

Have been toying with getting this done for about 3 years, but now need to sort!. My parents did their POAs last year and I was involved with the paperwork. I have been doing research on how to complete them and the pitfulls etc. I was abit shocked at the cost I was quoted by my parents solicitors for them to do mine and my wifes coupled with the cost of registering them also. 

I am looking at going it alone and completing the forms myself the basis of our POA's are myself and my wife Finance/Health for both of us so x4 x2 Attorneys our daughter and son. No other special conditions/or instructions.

I wish to ask the following questions:

1/ Can I use a registered Nurse as my certificate provider?

2/ Can the Registered Nurse (Certificate Provider) witness our signatures (Donors) and (Attorneys) our daughter and son?

3/ When I post back the forms (x92) to the Office of Public Guardian do I enclose the cheque in with the paperwork?

4/ Should I send the paperwork recorded delivery/registered post?

5/ As I am not involving a Solicitor (like my parents) is it ok to use me (Donor) to receive contact/emails etc from Office of Public Guardian to say yes it been registered and receive access codes to view POA's online and give these codes to the Attorneys.?

I appreciate its alot of questions to ask but the more I read about POA's the more mine fields I seem to find. Any pointers or help would be welcomed!.

Kind Regards

Jason 

There's plenty of simple guidance here: https://www.gov.uk/power-of-attorney/make-lasting-power

It should answer all your questions (eg 3. 'You can pay your application fee by card online or send a cheque with your LPA to OPG').

jnielow

Thanks for the Information guys!

Surfbabe

We've just done ours online - it didn't take too long and like you we were appointing each other and our two children. It took longer to print the documents off (4 x 22 pages) and get them signed than it did to fill them in !

Paid online and then sent signed documents by signed for post last week.