Husband delaying revoking LP Attorney (Financial & Property)

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My husband has a LPof Attorney from 20 years ago, before we married.
His siblings are nominated - not me cos it was before we were even engaged.
He never mentioned this to me and its only now that ive discovered it, in the course of drafting our Wills.

I did a search via the Office of the Public Guardian. It was easy!
Ive shown him a copy of the document a week ago and he still hasn't done anything about cancelling it.
He claims pressure of work stopped him cancelling this week - but I'm not convinced.

What do i do if he refuses to revoke the LP of Attorney?
He's given his siblings control of our mortgage payments if hes incapacitated!
I told him that they cant have control, im not a gambler!

Tell him who you will be nominating instead of him if he doesn’t sort it out. Do you get on ok with his sibling? They cannot benefit from the LPA - if something did happen to him then they have to act in his best interests which would include making sure that the mortgage is paid using any monies he has.

They might not benefit but why should I be put in a position of having to ask them for money?

We're moving this thread to our Chat topic for the OP, and giving it a bump to get it back into active conversations.

It’s only been a week, i would give a little longer before being convinced he isn’t going to do it.

He's got time for other things he wants to do.

Sure - but he may not see this as urgent - it’s been in place for years, he trusts his siblings and he’s very unlikely to have a debilitating accident or illness in the next few weeks.

Agreed, but he must have seen it as important to do it in the first place.

Twenty years ago! Presumably pre-kids, aka a time when he probably had more time for admin. And I doubt he got round to it in a week even back then...

Do you have an LPoA for yourself, out of interest? Do you both have wills? Nominated each other as beneficiaries of any policies or trusts?

Also - do you want this LPoA fully revoked and one with you as the sole attorney, or do you want to be added as an attorney? It's not impossible you and DH could be debilitated in the same accident, if you are planning ahead.