Enduring Power of Attorney for New South Wales
$50.00
Appointment of Enduring Guardian for New South Wales
$50.00
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By creating an enduring power of attorney, you choose and empower someone to manage your financial affairs if you lose the ability to manage them yourself. If you lose the ability without having appointed an enduring attorney, there may be no one who can manage your financial affairs. In that case it may be necessary for a relative or friend to apply to the court for someone to be appointed. That is usually an expensive, time-consuming and unsatisfactory exercise.
By appointing an enduring guardian, you choose, and give authority to, someone to manage your care and welfare, if you are unable to make your own decisions. This enables the person who you appoint to make decisions for you about your health care and about where you live. If you lose the ability to make these decisions for yourself, without having appointed an enduring guardian, there may be no one who can manage those issues for you. If that is the case, it may be necessary for a relative or friend to apply to the court for someone to be appointed. That is usually an expensive, time-consuming and unsatisfactory exercise.
For an enduring power of attorney and an enduring guardianship to be valid legal documents, the signature must be witnessed by a “qualified witness”. The qualified witness must provide advice to the person who is signing the enduring power of attorney or enduring guardianship appointment about the effect of the document and, having done so, must certify in writing that the person signing the document appeared to understand the effect of the document. If the qualified witness is not satisfied that the person signing the document understands its effect, then the document will not be validly created.
You can make an Enduring Power of Attorney document using the LawOnline system in just five minutes, if you know exactly what you want to provide and don't need any advice. Realistically, you should expect it to take about 10 minutes. If you feel that you need to read all of the advice carefully, that will take you about 20 minutes.
The Lawyers at LawOnline have carefully prepared the documents that you will find on the LawOnline site, to ensure that you will prepare a fully legal and normal legal document. You also have the benefit of all of the legal advice that is made available to you on this website. It is just as safe as visiting a lawyer personally, but is a great deal more convenient to access and is often considerably cheaper.