General Power of Attorney

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General Power of Attorney

Your legal affairs are important to you. You want to make sure your family is taken care of and that you are also taken care of in the event of an accident or other situation. The General Power of Attorney is a document that will appoint an attorney to act on your behalf regarding general activities such as personal and/or financial matters.

What does Power of Attorney mean? Power of Attorney means you are handing your matters over to someone who is competent to handle them while you are away. You may just be out of the country for several months where you need someone to monitor your holdings. It could be that you are becoming ill with a disease and you need someone to help you if you are declared incompetent to handle your affairs. The Power of Attorney does not actually have to be given to an attorney, but the attorney can be a close friend or relative.

For example, say you are thirty years old and your parent all of the sudden is no longer able to make decisions like paying bills, or about personal matters. A Power of Attorney given to you can ensure you have the right to see to their personal care and financial needs. This General Power of Attorney can be used to appoint an attorney to act generally in respect of personal and, or financial matters. The template can be customised online and adjusted to appoint the attorney indefinately or for a specific period of time.

Once a Power of Attorney has been put in place it can be terminated at any time using a Deed of Revocation of Power of Attorney. Be careful when appointing a person to act as your attorney to specify what it is you want them to have authority to do. You can choose to appoint an Attorney generally to act on your behalf. In this situation the person will have the authority to manage all and any of your affairs in your absence. Alternativley, you can choose to grant your Attorney authority to undertake specific tasks on your behalf. General Powers of Attorney are often used by individual's who will be away travelling for a period of time or by individuals who are unable to get out to places and wish to appoint someone that can act on their behalf.

An Ordinary Power of Attorney becomes void in the event that you lose your mental capabilities. Accordingly an Ordinary Power of Attorney is not suitable for managing the affairs of elderly or ailing relatives. For such individuals a Lasting Power of Attorney should be used which continues to be valid once a person loses their full mental abilities provided that it is registered with the Court of Protection.

The General Power of Attorney agreement can be terminated at any time if you have entered into the agreement as a competent person. In other words if you are out of the country and need a person to handle your affairs, when you come back you can use a Deed of Revocation to terminate the Power of Attorney and take your affairs over again. If you are declared incompetent you would first have to be declared competent before you can sign a Deed of Revocation to get your affairs back in place.

Our General Power of Attorney Template

The General Power of Attorney is often a blanket agreement, but you can create a more specific tailored document using our template.

The General Power of Attorney offered on this site is a document template. The template has been designed to protect your legal rights when you need to hand over Power of Attorney to another. You are able to customise the document within the laws of England and Wales. The document available for download has been written by a qualified solicitor to ensure your rights are being protected.

You can edit the document when you need to and reuse it at any time. The template is useful for long term and short term appointments of Power of Attorney. You are able to save the document to your computer, so that you can reuse it whenever you find the need.