{"id":73597,"date":"2016-08-26T12:21:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T12:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=384230e5ba40048f89f6376871093ecc"},"modified":"2016-08-26T12:21:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T12:21:54","slug":"news-story-opgs-new-guides-show-how-to-be-an-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=73597","title":{"rendered":"News story: OPG\u2019s new guides show how to be an attorney"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) has published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/how-to-be-an-attorney\">complete guides<\/a> to fulfilling the challenging role of an attorney \u2013 someone you can choose to make financial or health and welfare decisions on your behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys are appointed through a legal instrument called a lasting power of attorney (LPA), a form you sign and register with OPG naming who\u2019ll help you with particular kinds of decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Property and financial affairs attorneys look after such things as utility bills or selling a house for the \u2018donor\u2019 (the person who appointed them); health and welfare attorneys help with things such as healthcare, diet and where the donor lives.<\/p>\n<p>Being an attorney can be a demanding role \u2013 like a part-time job for some \u2013 which is why OPG decided to create comprehensive guides to help attorneys be as effective as they can. Separate \u2018How to be an attorney\u2019 guides for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/how-to-be-an-attorney\/how-to-be-an-attorney-property-and-financial-decisions\">financial<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/how-to-be-an-attorney\/how-to-be-a-property-and-finances-attorney-lp15\">health and welfare<\/a> decisions look at getting started as an attorney; how to make decisions in the donor\u2019s best interests; and common attorney scenarios such as resolving disputes.<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of case studies in the guides show how attorneys might handle common issues that come up.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/how-to-be-an-attorney\">\u2018How to be an attorney\u2019<\/a> guides are available in web and print-friendly versions and are counterparts to OPG\u2019s existing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/deputy-guidance-how-to-carry-out-your-duties\">\u2018How to be a deputy\u2019<\/a> guides. Deputies fulfil a similar role to attorneys but are appointed by a court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Office of the Public Guardian publishes comprehensive guidance to being an attorney \u2013\u00a0someone who makes crucial decisions for someone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}