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Power of Attorney Glasgow

Our power of attorney solicitors in Glasgow make sure someone you trust can act for you if illness or injury means you cannot.

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What we handle

Power of attorney in Scotland

Continuing POA

Covers money and property – paying bills, managing accounts, dealing with your home. Used immediately or only on incapacity, your choice.

Welfare POA

Covers medical treatment, care arrangements and where you live. Only ever takes effect if you lose capacity.

Registration handled

A POA has no effect until registered with the Office of the Public Guardian (Scotland). We handle certification and registration.

Part of a complete plan

A POA covers you while you are alive. A will covers what happens after. Most clients sort both together.

Why power of attorney matters in Scotland

Here is the misconception that catches families out. If you lose capacity without a POA, your spouse or children cannot simply step in. Nobody can – not even to access your own bank account to pay your own care bills. Your family instead faces a guardianship application through the courts: slow, stressful and expensive, at exactly the worst time.

A power of attorney, granted while you are well, removes that risk entirely. It is not a document for the elderly. It is a document for adults – illness and accidents do not check your age first.

Timing matters

Drafting and signing takes a couple of weeks. Registration with the Office of the Public Guardian then takes additional time, often several months, and the document cannot be used until registered. Early is always better.

Common questions

Power of attorney FAQs

The family usually needs to apply to the Sheriff Court for a guardianship order. Guardianship is significantly slower, more expensive and more intrusive than a POA, involves ongoing supervision, and typically needs renewed. A POA granted in advance avoids all of it.

Someone you trust completely, who is organised, and who will act in your interests – commonly a spouse, adult child or close friend. You can appoint more than one, decide whether they act jointly or independently, and name substitutes.

Yes. Scotland has its own system – continuing and welfare powers of attorney registered with the Office of the Public Guardian (Scotland). An English Lasting Power of Attorney is a different document under different law. If you live in Scotland, you need the Scottish version.

Yes. While you have capacity you can revoke a POA or grant a new one at any time, and attorneys can resign. Changes should be notified to the Office of the Public Guardian so the record stays accurate.

Drafting and signing usually takes a couple of weeks, including the capacity certificate. Registration with the Office of the Public Guardian then takes additional time, often several months, and the document cannot be used until registered.

Protect your future decisions

A power of attorney is quick to set up now and impossible to set up later.

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