My Mum moved into a Care Home in June and I am in the process of selling her house to fund her care.
We are now almost 3 months into the conveyancing process and despite having LPA over Mum's finances and property, it appears that's no longer enough to satisfy the Land Registry.
According to the Buyer's Solicitor, they are insisting on a letter from Mum's GP, confirming she doesn't have the mental capacity to represent herself. I thought that was the whole point of LPA. Has anyone else experienced this?
Obtaining such a letter is proving to be very difficult, because, when Mum moved into the CH, she had to change her GP and the new GP (who has only met her once, very briefly) is refusing to write the letter until my Mum undergoes a full Psychiatric Assessment, (in other words, a second diagnosis), a process that took 9 months last time.
My Mum was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in August 2016, by which time she was well into the mid stages.
She certainly hasn't improved in the last 2 years and can no longer sign her own name, or remember what she was told 2 minutes ago.
I tried explaining to her new GP that, if my Mum had sufficient mental capacity to be selling her own home, she'd still be living in it... she wouldn't need full time residential care and I wouldn't need to be acting as her Attorney.
I'm not sure how much more of this I can take... how many more hoops will I be made to jump through to protect my Mum and keep her safe... I'm hanging on by a thread...
We are now almost 3 months into the conveyancing process and despite having LPA over Mum's finances and property, it appears that's no longer enough to satisfy the Land Registry.
According to the Buyer's Solicitor, they are insisting on a letter from Mum's GP, confirming she doesn't have the mental capacity to represent herself. I thought that was the whole point of LPA. Has anyone else experienced this?
Obtaining such a letter is proving to be very difficult, because, when Mum moved into the CH, she had to change her GP and the new GP (who has only met her once, very briefly) is refusing to write the letter until my Mum undergoes a full Psychiatric Assessment, (in other words, a second diagnosis), a process that took 9 months last time.
My Mum was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in August 2016, by which time she was well into the mid stages.
She certainly hasn't improved in the last 2 years and can no longer sign her own name, or remember what she was told 2 minutes ago.
I tried explaining to her new GP that, if my Mum had sufficient mental capacity to be selling her own home, she'd still be living in it... she wouldn't need full time residential care and I wouldn't need to be acting as her Attorney.
I'm not sure how much more of this I can take... how many more hoops will I be made to jump through to protect my Mum and keep her safe... I'm hanging on by a thread...