Disputes and safeguards

The protections built around an LPA, and what to do when something has gone wrong with one.

Main pages on this topic

Make an LPA online
The whole journey end to end: questions, documents, signing and registration.
Solicitor, GOV.UK or online?
An honest comparison, including when you genuinely should pay a solicitor.

Grounds, forms and timing for objecting to registration.

The three routes to removing an attorney, and their consequences.

The investigation process from both sides.

Warning signs, evidence to collect and where to report.

Where encouragement ends and undue influence begins.

Deadlock, mediation and the court route.

What the court does, the forms, the fees and the timescales.

Invalidity at the point of signing, and events that end an LPA.

Verifying an LPA through registration stamps, access codes and the OPG.

When to use safeguarding rather than the OPG, and what follows.

An LPA is quicker, cheaper and lets you choose who acts. Deputyship is the court route when it is already too late for an LPA.

Choose one LPA or both, then start online for £49 per LPA.

The Office of the Public Guardian charges a separate £92 to register each LPA.