LPA through a company called ZENCO

theped

Hello all.  Ive today come across this online company called ZENCO About Us - Zenco Legal who offer to do your Lasting Power of Attorney for £99 per document and check it for you to ensure its legal. The website states it only takes 15 minutes to complete. Now i took it that this was a complicated document, so this has put me on edge. Has anyone here used Zenco and could offer their findings/experience with them please?

elsien

“The Office of the Public Guardian charge a registration fee that ranges from £0 to £82 for each Lasting Powers of Attorney.  This is not included in our cost.”

It is simple enough if your affairs are straightforwards to do the power-of-attorney yourself online, just for the cost of the registration fee. So what you are effectively paying Zenco for is double checking the forms that you have completed to make sure they are dated and signed correctly.

Which is simple enough to do yourself, unless you like having that reassurance of someone else looking it over as well. 

if you have complex affairs, for example a relative set up a power-of-attorney for keeping his business going, I would do that through a solicitor anyway.

But with powers of attorney, the maxim  is less is more so as to avoid unintended complications. So if you’re happy to leave it with a bare minimum in which is what most people do, there’s nothing complicated about them. You are asking your attorney to be someone you know and trust and who you can talk to about what you would want to happen if you lost capacity.  Which is why you don’t need a lot of complicated instructions.

If you don’t trust them to carry out your wishes you shouldn’t be appointing them in the first place. 

Albermarle

Also subsequently they will probably bombard you with offers about will writing, setting up trusts etc.

Best just to do it yourself online and get a friend or family member to help if necessary.

Marcon

theped said:

Hello all.  Ive today come across this online company called ZENCO About Us - Zenco Legal who offer to do your Lasting Power of Attorney for £99 per document and check it for you to ensure it's legal. The website states it only takes 15 minutes to complete. Now i took it that this was a complicated document to this has put me on edge. Has anyone here used Zenco and could offeer their findings/experience with them please?

Any reason you can't do it for yourself - have you actually looked at what is involved?

dunstonh

In the past, setting up one of the POA versions was quite legalistic in wording and understanding.   However, the LPOA application has been changed to plainer language and is very simple to set up without the need for third parties.