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power of attorney is a it's it's a
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device by which you can appoint somebody
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else to manage your affairs if you are
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unable to do it for yourself or just to
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help you manage your affairs if you can
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only manage them to an extent yourself
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until 2007 you could only make what's
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called an enduring power of attorney and
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anybody who did those are still valid
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you just can't make a new one of those
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anymore
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those dealt only with money and property
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it wasn't possible to make a power of
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attorney to deal with your medical
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decisions on welfare where you should
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live for example if you needed to go
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into a nursing home so there was a in
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2007 to sorts of powers of attorney was
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set up they're both called lasting
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powers but ones are lasting power for
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your property and affairs so rather like
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the old EPA enduring power and the other
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one is a lasting power for Health and
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Welfare and the beauty of the means that
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you can appoint the person or people
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that you would choose to to manage your
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affairs if you can't do it anymore
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rather than you know if disaster strikes
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let's say you had a stroke can't manage
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your affairs maybe only for a few weeks
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but during that period somebody has got
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to keep the show on the road and the
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alternative to you having an attorney is
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that somebody will apply to the court
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for a deputy to be appointed that's what
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used to be called a receiver that might
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be a member of the family it might be a
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family solicitor it could be a panel
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deputy there are 60 of those around the
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UK or England and Wales I should say
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correctly of whom I'm one for the nice
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thing about a power of attorney is that
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you can choose for yourself and it can
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be a member of the family
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professional combination of those if you
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feel that there are issues that remember
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the fam
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need a hand with and the attorneys the
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way you make power of attorney is that
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you fill in a form basically you can
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download them from the internet if you
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want to you couldn't get them from
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government site the courts site people
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do get entangle with them there's quite
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a lot of bureaucracy attached to it and
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you do need to make sure that you've got
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every I dotted and every T cross in
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exactly the right place you had to pay a
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court fee there 130 pounds for
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registering power once you've made it at
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the office of the Public Guardian who
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then keep a light hand eye on things to
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make sure that nobody's doing what they
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all want
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and once the power is registered the
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attorneys can then act provided that the
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person who's given them that power is
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happy for them to make the decisions and
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can't make the decisions themselves so
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to the extent that a person can make
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their own decision they must be allowed
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to do that you can just confer with them
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if they really can't make the decision
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then it's up to the attorney to to make
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a decision in their best interests quite
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often people will appoint different
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attorneys for their property and affairs
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ideally you want somebody with a good
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financial head on their shoulders from
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the people who might make the decisions
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about which nursing home they would go
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into for example it's more likely to be
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a close member of the family for that or
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should should you be revived if you're
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in a coma with no prospect of a quality
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of life after being revived is that what
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she wants and who's going to tell the
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doctor what she want and that would go
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into your health and wealth
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so it can be pretty extreme in what it
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does but you can control how much power
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you give you attorneys within the
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document as to what decisions you'd like
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them to make whether you want one or
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more people to make a decision whether
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you happy just for one to do it
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you can also point a backup attorney so
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if you appoint somebody who then dies or
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goes off the rails or disappears abroad
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or whatever you can have a backup
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attorney come in and and take over so
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they couldn't flexible I mean my view
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you know I think everybody should have
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one people will say oh but I'm not old
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enough you know road accidents happen
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sadly illness happens sadly and you know
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just because you're 20 doesn't mean to
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say it's not going to happen
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to you just because you're not wealthy
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doesn't mean to say that you don't have
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affairs that need managing I've got a
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young lady very young lady who had had a
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difficult time at birth she's on
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benefits she can't manage them so I get
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to do that to give her a hand with how
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to how to manage things and where she's
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going to help her with where she's going
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to live and so on so it's a good
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flexible system
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