A Finance (formerly known as Property & Affairs) Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) allows the appointed attorney(s) to deal with the donor’s (the person who made the LPA) financial affairs from bank accounts, to tax, right through to buying and selling property.

A Health & Care (formerly Health & Welfare) Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) allows the appointed attorney(s) to make decisions around the donor’s (the person who made the LPA) medical and daily personal needs from washing, dressing and eating, right through to moving to a nursing home, and even relating to life sustaining treatment.

So, you’d like an LPA, but want to do it yourself – no problem. One thing you will need is a Certificate Provider. You may not want to trouble a friend, or even have them knowing you personal affairs. And so, this is where using a professional Certificate Provider might be the right option for you.

So you want to make a Lasting Power of Attorney, but don’t want to trouble family or friends with the very considerable burden that that would bestow of them should you loose capacity? QLAW is your answer. As solicitors, we can accept the LPA appointment, and rather like acting as professional executors, should the LPA ever be needed, you can reast easy knowing that you affairs are in the hands of professionals, and you have not burdened your loved ones.

Need a Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA), but the person has lost capacity? Don’t worry, you can apply to become their Deputy. It is similar to an LPA, but the Court of Protection makes the appointment on behalf of the ‘donor’ (who would otherwise have been able to make an LPA appointment had they still been of ‘sound mind’).