Who would make decisions for you tomorrow?
An accident, a stroke or dementia can happen at any age. Without an LPA, nobody, not even your husband, wife or children, has an automatic right to manage your money or speak for you about your care.
What happens without one
Accounts can be frozen
Bills still need paying.
Banks will not let relatives run your accounts just because they are family.
A court application instead
Slow, costly and out of your hands.
Your family would have to apply to the Court of Protection, with months of waiting and ongoing supervision.
Your family can be overruled
Professionals decide.
Without a Health & Welfare LPA, doctors and social workers are not obliged to follow your family's wishes.
Most people need both
A one-person pack with both types is £450 plus £184 in OPG fees. Both LPAs are also included in our Complete planning packs.
Property & Financial Affairs
- Paying bills and running bank accounts
- Collecting pensions and benefits
- Selling or letting your home if needed
- Usable with your permission while you still have capacity
Health & Welfare
- Decisions about care and daily living
- Where you live, including care homes
- Medical treatment, and life-sustaining treatment if you choose
- Only used if you cannot decide for yourself
Couple LPA Pack
- Both types for both partners: four documents
- Appointed for each other, with replacement attorneys
- One appointment, one process
- Also part of our Complete Planning Pack
You can do it yourself. Here is what you pay us for.
The forms are free. What goes wrong is the detail: the wrong witness, pages signed in the wrong order, instructions the Office of the Public Guardian cannot accept.
The right choices
Who to appoint, replacement attorneys, and whether they act jointly or separately.
Signed in the right order
A step-by-step signing plan for you, your certificate provider and your attorneys.
Checked and submitted
Every page checked before it goes to the OPG, with updates until it is registered.
In your language
Our advisers speak many community languages, at no extra cost.
Our fee does not include the Office of the Public Guardian fee (£92 per LPA), paid directly to the OPG. Reduced fees or exemptions may apply on a low income or certain benefits. An LPA can only be made while you have mental capacity.
Put your LPA in place while you can
Speak to one of our advisers today, by WhatsApp, video, phone or at home.