Lasting Power of Attorney form for Property and Financial Affairs

Page 5 of 114 How you want your attorneys to make decisionsThinking about how you want your attorneysto make decisionsIf you leave this section blank, your attorneys!will be appointed to make all decisions jointly.• Jointly: this means that the attorneys must make alldecisions together. For further information onappointing your attorneys jointly, see the separateguidance.• Jointly and severally: this means that attorneyscan make decisions together and separately. Thismight be useful, for example, if one attorney is notavailable to make a decision at a certain time. If oneattorney cannot act the remaining attorney is able tocontinue to make decisions.• Jointly for some decisions, and jointly andseverally for other decisions: this means that yourattorneys must make certain decisions togetherand may make certain decisions separately. Youwill need to set out below how you want this to workin practice.Lasting power of attorney for property and financial affairsChoosing which decisions must be madetogether and which decisions may be madeseparately – how this will work in practice• Please make your intentions clear about how yourattorneys are to make decisions about running bankaccounts and savings accounts, making or sellinginvestments and selling property, and spendingyour money.• Please check that your intentions will work inpractice – it may not be possible to register oruse this lasting power of attorney if, for example,a bank or building society account cannot beoperated as you wish.How you want your attorneys to make decisionsIf you are appointing only one attorney and no replacement attorneys, now go to section 5 JointlyJointly and severally Go to section 5 and crossthrough the box below Go to section 5 and crossthrough the box belowJointly for some decisions, and jointly and severally for other decisionsOnly if you have ticked the last box above, now tell us in the space below which decisions yourattorneys must make jointly and which decisions may be made jointly and severally If you need more space, use continuation sheet A2(8Helpline0300 456 0300direct.gov.uk/mentalcapacityValid only with Office of the Public Guardian stamp