YES. An EPA made before October 2007 will still be valid for your property and financial affairs. However, you will still need to make your Lasting Power of Attorney for Health and Care Decisions as this is not covered under the provisions of your EPA.
NO. Your Lasting Power of Attorney will only be valid in England & Wales. If you move to Scotland or Northern Ireland then you must make your LPA's relative to their own administration.
If you do not make an LPA and later become unable to make certain decisions for yourself, there may be a time when no one can legally make decisions for you. This can make managing your affairs very difficult, and tasks such as paying bills, paying for care costs, and making decisions about your future [...]
If you owned your property jointly with your spouse, and they were your only Attorney, then your partner would not be able to sell your home. This is because Attorneys cannot make decisions which benefit themselves, and selling the house would not be viewed as them acting independently. In this situation the property would first [...]
There are two sets of fees which become payable when making you Lasting Powers of Attorney. Firstly there are registration fees payable to the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG), and these are as follows: £82 per LPA document if your income is more than £12,000 per year and you don't receive a qualifying benefit. £41 per LPA [...]
NO. The purpose of completing your Lasting Power of Attorney forms now is to allow people to make decisions for you in the future, if you can no longer make them yourself. It does not mean that once you have completed your LPA forms your Attorneys take over making decisions for you. If you make your [...]