LPA or Lasting Power of Attorney UK is a crucial legal document. This document is made in the presence of a solicitor by registering, providing personal details, and paying a fee. This document or LPA will let the UK Residents appoint one or more people to help them make decisions or to make decisions on their behalf.

The Lasting Power of Attorney UK gives you more control over the incidents and happenings (to donor) if you have an accident or an illness or when you are in a situation to not making your own decisions. This situation is called as lack mental capacity.

The Lasting Power of Attorney is divided into two types:

Health and Welfare LPA

This LPA allows you to give an attorney the power to make decisions about your daily routine, medical care, moving into a care home, life-sustaining treatment.

This LPA can be used only when you are unable to make your own decisions.

Property and Financial Affairs

This is another type of Lasting Power of Attorney UK to give an attorney the power to make decisions about money and property. They attorney on your behalf will be allowed to manage a bank or building society account, paying bills, collecting benefits or a pension, selling home and similar other matters.

Choice is yours; you can choose the one of your choice or both. The LPA will be legally binding in England and Wales only.

If you work in Scotland or Northern England, you need to follow a different way to make a Power of Attorney.

The Eligibility Criteria to Make a Lasting Power of Attorney UK

According to the criteria set for the LPA, a person must be 18 or over and have mental capacity or the ability to make your own decisions.

A person who is going to make Lasting Power of Attorney UK don’t need to live in the UK or be a British Citizen

How to Make a Lasting Power of Attorney

Making a Lasting Power of Attorney requires following a few steps. The first one is to choose an attorney. You can also choose more than one.

• The next step is to fill in the form to appoint them as an attorney (s).
• Registering Lasting Power of Attorney UK with the Office of the Public Guardian will take 8 to 10 weeks (if there are no mistakes in the application).
• Applying to register the Lasting Power of Attorney costs £82 except you get a reduction or exemption.

If you no longer need LPA or want to make a new one, you can cancel the existing one.

Summary: Lasting Power of Attorney UK is divided into two categories – Health and Welfare LPA, and Property and Financial Affairs. Appointing an attorney is the first step to begin the procedure of Lasting Power of Attorney.