LPA Checking Service is brought to you by Templar Estate Planning, one of the country’s leading estate planning companies.
Online LPA checking service
You upload your completed LPAs pre-registration for us to review. We will confirm the LPAs are okay to be submitted or alert you to any errors or parts that need changing or correcting. You then submit your LPAs to the OPG for registration.
Order now!Postal LPA checking service
You post to us your completed LPAs pre-registration for us to review. If the LPAs are okay, we will submit them on your behalf to the OPG for registration. If any errors are found, your LPAs will be returned to you for correction.
Order now!Professionally drafted and registered Power of Attorney (LPA) documents
We professionally draft and register Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) documents for our clients. We take the stress out of the whole process and ensure LPAs are registered successfully first time. We provide a first class 5 star service that is reflected by our Google and Trust pilot reviews.
As part of this service we include a full consultation where we assess your needs and make recommendations based on your circumstances. This includes who should be appointed attorneys and reserve attorneys, how attorneys should act and how replacement attorneys should come in. We can also advise on and draft instruction and/or preference clauses that will work as intended and not cause your attorneys problems when using the registered Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) documents. As professionals, we assess mental capacity and can act as certificate provider.
We draft all Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) documents and then guide and supervise you through the signing and witness process, ensuring that everything is done correctly to avoid rejection. If you are exempt from paying Office of Public Guardian (“OPG”) fees or are eligible for a fee reduction, we will also complete the necessary forms and apply for that for you, dealing with any queries from the OPG.
Once everything is completed, we do the registration for you and send the LPAs to the OPG. The registered LPAs come back to us so that we can make electronic copies, to enable immediate certified copies to be produced for you at anytime in the future. This can be an invaluable service should your LPAs get lost or damaged.
When we return the LPAs to our clients after registration, we also give advice to clients and their attorneys about using the LPAs and registering them with the OPG for electronic use.
If you would like Templar Estate Planning to professionally draft and register your Lasting Power of Attorney LPAs, please complete the contact form below and so we can commence work immediately. Our currently prices are £300+VAT (£360 inc VAT) for one LPA, £600 + VAT (£720 inc VAT) for two LPAs or £800 + VAT (£960 inc VAT) for four LPAs (both Health and Welfare + Property and Financial for a couple). OPG registration fees, as applicable, are payable on top of our fees.
Contact UsProfessionally reviewed and checked Power of Attorney (LPA) documents
If you do not wish to use our full professional service to draft and register your LPAs, at LPA checking service , we offer a very affordable service to professionally review and check your Lasting Power of Attorney LPA documents before you send them to the Office of the Public Guardian for registration.
For the tax year 2023/24, nearly 51,000 LPAs were rejected by the OPG at registration stage. Do not take the risk of having your own LPAs rejected and delay the registration process. If your LPA is rejected you will have to pay the OPG further registration fees to resubmit. You will also have to correct the errors or potentially redo the whole LPAs and get resigned. It is not unknown for further errors to be made on resubmission and LPAs to be rejected more than once.It currently takes about 4 months to register a LPA with the Office of the Public Guardian. You don’t want the process to take even longer!
You could also encounter the unfortunate situation of a donor losing mental capacity after the original LPA was submitted. If the original LPA was rejected it could means that he or she could not sign for and register a LPA, forcing an application for Deputyship from the Court of Protection, which is a very drawn out, complicated and expensive. Such applications for Deputyship typically take 12 to 18 months and are lot more expensive that Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) documents.
To get the best Lasting Power of Attorney of Attorney (LPA) documents possible, we always recommend our professional drafting and registration service. If you cannot afford that service and want to guarantee your LPAs are registered without problems, you should find our professional LPA checking service affordable. We have two service options:
Online LPA checking service
You upload your completed LPAs pre-registration for us to review. We will confirm the LPAs are okay to be submitted or alert you to any errors or parts that need changing or correcting.You then submit your LPAs to the OPG for registration.
Order now!Postal LPA checking service
You post to us your completed LPAs pre-registration for us to review.If the LPAs are okay, we will submit them on your behalf to the OPG for registration.If any errors are found, your LPAs will be return to your for correction.
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