Eastenders - Current Episode Discussion - VIII

[maidmarian]

In the case of Power of Attorney you do, you have to register it with the Office of the Public Guardian. You have to send off the form together with the appropriate fee. Once this has been done and no-one objects to the registration (which Ben could do of course), the Public Guardian must register it. They must do this after three weeks. The Public Guardian must notify the donor once it is registered. As you can see this process actually takes some time.

Signing over the business to Max however is instantaneous.Once Ben's signed the contract in front of a witness it becomes legally binding immediately. so there is no chance of Sharon ever being able to beat Ben to it.

sorry parkerman -I must have missed
the bit where it was said it was a Lasting
power of Attorney - which does have to
be registered with Office of Public Guardian.

there are many different sorts -general ordinary
lasting enduring etc . Different names in different
parts of UK - different rules & powers to cover
all situations from.permanent impairment down
to short- term problem.

It does stress in guidance how careful people
have to be to get right sort or they may not
acheive what they wish.

Your point about contract is very important.