 is a legal document that allows you to appoint someone to make decisions on your behalf. There are two types: property and financial, and health and welfare. But the application system has long been criticised as complicated and out of date. You must get the forms online and post them to the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG), which has to approve the paperwork before you can use it. It costs £82 to apply for a power of attorney and at the moment you cannot fill out and submit your){kind=link}
Families applying for power of attorney will soon be able to do it online under new rules intended to reform a system that is bogged down by chronic delays.
A lasting power of attorney (LPA) is a legal document that allows you to appoint someone to make decisions on your behalf. There are two types: property and financial, and health and welfare. But the application system has long been criticised as complicated and out of date.
You must get the forms online and post them to the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG), which has to approve the paperwork before you can use it. It costs £82 to apply for a power of attorney and at the moment you cannot fill out and submit your
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