Here at Lesley Anderson Law, we are happy to assist you in having a Will and/or a Power of Attorney prepared.

Will

A Will is a legal document that expresses how you want your Estate distributed after your death.

In respect to having a Will prepared, we would initially meet with you to discuss your requirements. This will include who you would wish to appoint as your Executors, these are the persons responsible for distributing your Estate.  We always recommend nominating at least two Executors just in case one is unable to act for any reason. We would then discuss with you who you wish to be your Beneficiaries.  These are the person or persons who will inherit under your Estate. In the event that more than one person would inherit, we would discuss with you how your Estate will be divided.

It would be helpful when you are attending your appointment to have full name and address details for both your Executors and Beneficiaries.

Your Will would usually state how you would wish the disposal of your remains to be by way of cremation, burial or at the discretion of your Executors.

Following your appointment, we would forward to you a draft Will for your approval.  Once the Will is in a format that you are happy with, we would arrange a suitable date and time for you to attend our offices to have the Will signed and witnessed.  We do offer a service whereby we hold the principal Will within our offices for safe keeping and provide you with a copy for your records.

Power of Attorney

We would explain that a Power of Attorney is a legal document that grants authority for someone else to make decisions on your behalf. The Power of Attorney would detail the names of your Attorney’s and the powers that you would wish them to exercise which can relate to either health and welfare and/or financial and property powers.

In respect to having a Power of Attorney prepared, we would firstly meet with you to discuss your requirements in regard to having the Power of Attorney documentation prepared.  We would discuss with you who you would wish to appoint as your attorney. We do recommend that you appoint two attorneys just in case one is unable to act for any reason.

It would be helpful if you can provide names and addresses for the people you wish to appoint as your attorneys.

We would thereafter prepare a draft Power of Attorney for your consideration along with relative draft letters to be issued to your attorneys along with forms for your attorneys to complete.

Once you have confirmed the terms of the Principal Power of Attorney document, we would then send to your nominated attorneys paperwork to be completed along with a copy of the Power of Attorney and the attached draft letters.  Thereafter, once the paperwork is returned from your attorneys, we would arrange to meet with you again to have the Power of Attorney signed and a declaration of capacity completed.  The application is then submitted to the Office of the Public Guardian for registration.  The Office of the Public Guardian would then issue a certified Power of Attorney.

We offer a free initial consultation to discuss a will and /or Power of Attorney along with a competitive block fee.

If you would wish to discuss matters further or to make an appointment to discuss the preparation of a Will and/or Power of Attorney please contact our office by email at enquiries@lesleyandersonlaw.co.uk or telephone on 01324 278565.