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Ancillary Services:
In addition to our main services we also provide a range of Will and LPA related services. such as ‘severance of property tenancy’, ‘codicils’, ’side letters’, termination of LPAs, removal of an attorney, general powers of attorney. These may or may not require a home visit. Find out more
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- Codicils
- Side-
letters to support Wills - Lasting Power of Attorney (“LPA”) -
Registration - LPA Termination
- Removal of an Attorney from an LPA
- General Powers of Attorney (“GPA”)
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Will and LPA Related Services
In addition to our main services we provide the following services:
Codicils
A codicil is a legal document that changes an existing Last Will and testament (referred to hereafter as a ‘Will’). We normally recommend the whole Will is updated rather than making a Codicil - but there are occasions when a Codicil should be used.
A. A single Codicil for a single person.
- Cost: £110 + Travel Costs
B. Two Codicils for 2 people (One for each party)
- Cost: £150 + Travel Costs
- Option ‘b’ is only available to a married couple or two partners of the same civil partnership or two people who are partners and cohabiting in the same property.
- Note: We only draft Codicils that relate to Wills that we originally drafted.
Side Letters
Side letters add flesh to the bones on a Will - and can be very important in certain circumstances.
A. To produce a single Side Letter
- Cost: £NIL unless the side letter relates to a discretionary trust and the size of the estate is £1Mn or more then we reserve the right to charge a fee as the Side Letter will be complex.
Registration of a Lasting Power of Attorney (“LPA”) with the Office of the Public Guardian
Before an LPA can be used by the named attorneys it must be registered with the Office of the Public Guardian.
LPA Registration
Note: This is a stand-alone service for clients who made their LPAs previously but did not arrange their registration with the OPG at that time.
Before an attorney can legally use a Lasting Power of Attorney (“LPA”) it must first be registered with the Office of the Public Guardian (“OPG”).
The OPG’s fees are presently £82 per LPA or Enduring Power of Attorney (“EPA”) So 2 LPAs will cost £164, and 4 LPAs £328.
The OPG’s fees can change at any time.
Where certain criteria are met it is possible for the OPG’s fees to be halved or waived entirely. We will explain to you the criteria required to qualifyfor these savings when we meet, and guide you in what documentation we will need that is acceptable to the OPG to support your claim for a fee remission or fee waiver.
Please remember to add the OPG’s fees to our figures shown below to determine how much you will have to pay in total.
A. To register 1 LPA with the OPG
- Cost: £120 + Travel Costs less OPG Fees
B. To Register 2 LPAs with the OPG
- Cost: £140 (i.e.£70 per LPA) + Travel Costs -
OPG Fees
C. To Register 4 LPAs with the OPG
- Cost: £180 (i.e. £45 per LPA) + Travel Costs -
OPG Fees - Registration of an LPA can be undertaken by the donor or an attorney without using our services. Visit the OPG’s website to see how.
- The advantage of using our service is that we will check the documents before submission to ensure there are no obvious errors, help with claiming a fee remission or exemption where relevant, and oversee the registration process and liaise with the donor and the OPG when there is a problem.
Termination of Lasting Powers of Attorney (“LPA”) or the Removal of an Attorney from an LPA
Occasionally it is necessary to remove an attorney from an existing LPA or terminate an LPA entirely.
A. To terminate an LPA
- Cost: £80 + Travel Costs + Disbursements
B. To remove an attorney from an existing LPA
- Cost: £80 + Travel Costs + Disbursements
- Both (a) and (b) can be done by the donor themselves, but if you use our services we make the task slightly easier.
Registration of an Enduring Power of Attorney (“EPA”) with the office of the Public Guardian
Enduring Powers of Attorney were replaced by LPA Property & Financial Affairs in October 2007. An EPA that was correctly completed before that date can be still valid.
An EPA must be registered with the Office of the Public Guardian when the donor is loosing mental capacity or has lost it. An attorney cannot use an unregistered LPA if the donor has lost their capacity.
A. To register 1 EPA with the OPG
- Cost: £280 + Travel Costs + OPG Fees
- Registration of an EPA can be undertaken by an attorney without using our services. Visit the OPG’s website to see how.
- The advantage of using our service is that we already have template letters in place, and know the required process -
which is not straightforward and can be time consuming.
General Powers of Attorney
A General Power of Attorney is a simple document that allows you to appoint someone you trust to make financial decisions on your behalf. while you have mental capacity. Your attorneys cannot use the document if you have lost capacity.
A. To advice on and draft a GPA:
- Cost: £80 + Travel Costs
- We will only draft these documents for our existing clients, and even then only in exceptional circumstances in view of the high risk they represent.
- range of Will and LPA related services. such as ‘severance of property tenancy’, ‘codicils’, ’side letters’, termination of LPAs, removal of an attorney, general powers of attorney.
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