Welcome
@McBeagle
I hope you find DTP useful and informative
though,
@Squirrel12 , it seems from posts here that GPs are generally unwilling to act as a certificate provider even though they are on the list of those who can act in that role
from the Gov site:
Someone who has known you well for at least two years
You should ask a friend or neighbour, someone from your social or sports club, a work colleague, or similar. They must have known you well for at least two years. They must know you well enough to have an honest conversation with you about making your LPA and the things they have to confirm when they sign the LPA.
If possible, they should discuss your LPA with you in private, without attorneys or other people present, before they sign to ‘certify’ their part of the LPA.
Someone with relevant professional skills
Usually, someone with relevant professional skills would be one of the following:
- a registered healthcare professional, such as your GP
- a solicitor, barrister or advocate
- a registered social worker
- an independent mental capacity advocate (IMCA)
Other professionals may have skills suited to judging whether you can make an LPA – contact the Office of the Public Guardian if you’re unsure about your choice of certificate provider.
You may have to pay a professional to act as your certificate provider.
People who can’t be a certificate provider
The certificate provider must not be:
- an attorney or replacement attorney for the LPA
- an attorney or replacement attorney in any other LPA or enduring power of attorney that you’ve already made
- a member of your or your attorneys’ families – including wives, husbands, civil partners, in-laws and step-relatives
- an unmarried partner, boyfriend or girlfriend of yours or of any of your attorneys – whether or not they live at the same address
- your business partner or one of your attorneys’ business partners
- your employee or one of your attorneys’ employees
- an owner, manager, director or employee of a care home where you live, or a member of their family
- anyone running or working for a trust corporation appointed as an attorney in a financial decisions LPA