The Power of Attorney Practice Ltd is a company that specialises in all aspects of Power of Attorney work. We provide a highly professional, knowledgeable and sympathetic service to families requiring the correct legal documents surrounding the sensitive topic of mental capacity.
We also provide a consultancy service to a vast number of Independent Financial Advisers, Mortgage Brokers, Will Writers and Accountants across the UK, as well as other professionals not having the specialist knowledge in Lasting Powers of Attorney, but wanting to offer this service to their clients.
We also provide a consultancy service to a vast number of Independent Financial Advisers, Mortgage Brokers, Will Writers and Accountants across the UK, as well as other professionals not having the specialist knowledge in Lasting Powers of Attorney, but wanting to offer this service to their clients.
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Company Director, Miesha Heyworth first honed her skills at a large, national legal firm where she dealt with all aspects of estate administration; wills, trusts, probate and enduring powers of attorney. From her day to day dealings with people whose family members had lost mental capacity, it became apparent that many people wrongly presumed that being the next of kin for somebody meant that they had the legal right to make decisions for them.
A Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) gives another individual the legal authority to look after specific aspects of your financial affairs or health and welfare should you lose the capacity to do so. People presume that they may need to make an LPA only if they are getting old and are worried about dementia but LPA's are not just for the elderly; younger people may become incapacitated through accident or illness.
Giving access to all our financial information so that they can claim and receive benefits, pensions, allowances and rebates on our behalf. The attorneys can only assume power after the LPA has been registered with the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG). You do not have to have lost mental capacity for an attorney to use an LPA Property & Financial Affairs on your behalf.
Many people will not know that, while doctors can talk to our families about our health on some occasions, legally no one can make health and welfare decisions on our behalf without our authority. This means that if we lose mental capacity to make a healthcare decision for ourselves and have not made a Lasting Power of Attorney for Health and Welfare, there are circumstances where doctors will not talk to those closest to us.
It is important to put arrangements in place early, so if you are incapable of managing your own affairs, someone we trust and who loves us can make these important decisions on our behalf. If you do not have an LPA, the Court of Protection will intervene and manage your financial affairs for you. It is worth noting that it is extremely rare for the Court of Protection to appoint anyone to deal with your health and welfare decisions.
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