A Lasting Power of Attorney is a legal document that enables you to appoint someone to make decisions on your behalf. The person appointed becomes known as your “Attorney” and can legally make decisions on your behalf in relation to health and welfare as well as property and financial affairs.
We have a special interest in clients who don’t have mental capacity to manage their own finances, through illness, injury or old age.
Head of Department, Yvonne Carratt holds the STEP Advanced Certificate in Advising Vulnerable Clients.
Working with businesses we help owners plan and put arrangements in place so that the business can continue if a crisis occurs because a business owner, or key investor, dies or loses the ability to make a business decision.
DoLS ensures that people who can’t consent to their care arrangements in a care home or a hospital are protected if those arrangements “deprive them of their liberty”. For example,…
LPA stands for Lasting Power of Attorney. It is a powerful legal document. It is the power of an individual to appoint some-one as their official attorney to make decisions…
Just one year on from being one of only 11% of law firms in the country to be awarded the Lexcel accreditation, JMP Solicitors sailed through the onsite re-assessment. The…
Congratulations go to co-owner of JMP Solicitors and Head of Private Client department – Yvonne Carratt – who has been honoured with becoming an Associate Member of STEP – The…
Around a million people in England and Wales are estimated to be due a refund since the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) reduced the cost of registration fees last…
