Lasting power of attorney: acting as an attorney
Checks and visits
The Office of the Public Guardian and Court of Protection can check your decisions. They may:
- arrange a visit with you and the donor together, or the donor alone
- contact other people such as the donor’s family, bank or care workers
They can investigate and stop you acting as an attorney if, for example:
- you’ve done something the lasting power of attorney (LPA) says you cannot
- you have not done something the LPA has instructed you to do
- you have not been acting in the donor’s best interests
- you misuse the donor’s money or make decisions to benefit yourself
- you do something that goes against their human or civil rights
- the donor is not being treated well
- the donor made the LPA under pressure or they were tricked into it