POA how easy / difficult is it to do yourself?

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Anyone done it themselves? Mum is in a rehab and will go into a home when discharged. I've contacted 3 solicitors to do it and they've refused to do it as they're too busy to visit the rehab and said they'll only do it when she's back home - which she's not going to be 🙄

Age UK suggested printing it off and doing it ourselves but keeping hearing it's hard to do, something about signing in correct order ?

Anyone got any advice please?

In our area Citizens Advice used to do them. You could try them for help

That's a good idea,thank you .

We did ours by ourselves. It’s quite straightforward if you take your time and talk through the options with your parents. . It does give decent advice throughout the form.

it’s worth a look at least

we did it for our selves and my husband did it for his parents. It is a lot of signing at the end. Have everyone plus a witness in the same room at the end.

it is a big print job too.

I did ours with my parents. You just need to print the form off the government website and fill it in yourselves. You then have to get it countersigned by someone who knows your parents. Very easy

I did it for DM and DMIL it’s really not hard, you just need to make sure things are signed in the correct date order.

It’s not hard to do at all, just requires carefully reading all the instructions. Completing the forms is easy and the notes explain exactly what it all means. The only tricky part is making sure that all the people who have to sign do it in the right order.
Your Mum will have to talk to a trusted friend about what she’s planning, and the friend has to sign to say that this has happened. This is to prevent coercion. Just make sure that the friend doesn’t sign in the wrong order.
Having said that, my first attempt was rejected because I spelled my own name wrong so it’s not completely foolproof.

It’s really easy as long as they know what they want, go through electronically on the gov.uk site and then print it at the end, it guides you through all the points as you answer them. I did DM last year and had no issues.

It’s very easy, I did it for my mum - as a pp said, just get everyone in the same room and sign on the same day - it makes it a lot simpler.

My sister and I figured it out ourselves. Print the forms, read carefully and discuss with parents, then get someone they know to witness the signatures. Next door neighbour did ours as they’d lived next door for decades. It really doesn’t need a solicitor, just half an hour’s peace and quiet to read through it all

It's not hard to do at all but it is a faff. You can do it yourselves.

My tip is to ensure you tick the box that allows you to run her finances with her permission even if she still has capacity.

What does that mean,the correct day order? What is the wrong date order?

This is all encouraging,thank you 😊

I couldn't be bothered doing it ourselves (I would have been the 1 doing it) and got a solicitor to do it. To me it was worth the money.
Friend did it himself for his mother and it took lots of his time, filling in the forms etc and printing off and travelling to where she lived although he said it wasn't difficult wished he had also gone to a solicitor.

I did mine, my partner's, DDs, DSs, my friend's and her husband's. I did them all online and then printed them off. Very simple. I agree that it's definitely much easier to have everyone together to do the signing at the end.

Honestly it is so simple. Read through forms and notes thoroughly. Fill in those parts that don’t need a witness. Then get the witness to fill in their parts and be present when your DM signs. Sign it and send off. The advantage to doing it yourself is that when you need to do them for yourselves/ILs it will only take five minutes. Good luck

What does that mean,the correct day order? What is the wrong date order?

It's explained in the instructions. There's a specified order in which people have to sign and date the forms. Some signatures have to be witnessed, so you must sign in the presence of the witness.

My neighbour had a solicitor do the poa for one of her parents and it was still rejected the first time. So having a solicitor doesn't guarantee everything will go smoothly.

We did them ourselves - two each, so four in all.
They are not difficult to do. We did most of them online and then printed them out to sign, which we did with a couple of friends present. We asked one to sign to confirm that we were of sound mind and understood what we were doing (or whatever the phrase is) and another to witness all the signatures.

As long as you are organised it will be fine.

Exactly with @fairlygoodmother wrote.

We did it ourselves. Relatively straight forward just need time to read through the guide.

We did the majority ourselves but paid for the 'certificate' part. Person needing the LPA has no friends to explain the situation and it can't be anyone related by birth or marriage. We contacted a company (Simply Social Work) and a member of their team sat with the person (nobody else present) to explain the process and to ensure they understood and agreed to it. We then signed the forms in the correct order, witnessed by a neighbour (care home and hospital staff are not allowed to be witnesses under their work contracts apparently) and sent them off. 6 weeks later it was all done and dusted.

I wouldn’t pay a solicitor for this. I have done four.
As long as you have a good printer with plenty of ink as you fill it in online but need to print it off so everyone relevant can actually sign it.
I think the accompanying notes are very good and if you read them properly it is pretty straightforward.

www.gov.uk/power-of-attorney

It is easy to do
Health
Wealth
You will need a witness
Pay
Send off forms registered post

Read the notes, take it slow and steady, and do one at a time and you will be fine

Honestly, it’s very easy.