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As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly complete a lasting power of attorney form.
This still needs a person who signs their name to it.
Can you do it?
15 minutesto a draft.
1 hourto something you’d act on.
Cost, all in£0
Skill neededchat-fluent
Who has to check ita professional
What the alternative costsA solicitor can check or prepare a lasting power of attorney, but no comparable price is provided here.
If this goes wrong: the document may be rejected, fail to express the donor's wishes or be unusable when authority is needed.
What to actually do
Hand it to a person
The route this page recommends
Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.
Use a tool built for this
Second choiceDo it yourself
The distant thirdA chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 1 hour until you can act on the result.
How to actually do it
- Open the current lasting power of attorney guidance and form on GOV.UK, and confirm whether the donor is in England or Wales.
- Choose whether the document is for property and financial affairs, health and welfare, or both, then gather the donor's and proposed attorneys' names, addresses and dates of birth without pasting unnecessary identity documents into the chatbot.
- Paste the prompt into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and answer its questions about the donor, attorneys, replacement attorneys, preferences and instructions.
- Ask the chatbot to turn your answers into a section-by-section checklist, leaving blank any field you have not supplied and separating factual entries from suggested wording.
- Compare every checklist item and any suggested restriction against the current GOV.UK form and guidance, and ask a solicitor to check capacity questions, unusual instructions, family disagreements or any serious concern.
- Complete the official form, arrange the required certificate provider and witnesses, check every name and signature, and submit the LPA through the current GOV.UK process.
Prompt
Help me work through a UK lasting power of attorney form using current GOV.UK guidance only. Do not complete, sign or submit anything on my behalf, and do not invent legal requirements. First ask whether this is a property and financial affairs LPA or a health and welfare LPA, and whether the donor is in England or Wales. Then ask for only the information needed for each section, without asking me to paste unnecessary sensitive personal data. Explain each field in plain English, identify decisions I must make myself, and list anything that needs a certificate provider, witness, attorney or professional check. Flag any uncertainty, possible conflict of interest, questions about the donor's mental capacity, unusual restrictions, safeguarding concern or disagreement between family members. At the end, produce: 1. a section-by-section completion checklist, 2. wording options for preferences and instructions clearly marked as examples rather than legal advice, 3. a list of signatures and witnesses required, 4. a final comparison checklist against the current GOV.UK form and guidance, and 5. the points a UK solicitor should check. Include the exact GOV.UK pages used and state that this is not professional advice.
Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.
What it gets wrong
- AI cannot decide whether the donor has the mental capacity to make the LPA or identify coercion in a family situation.
- AI cannot take responsibility for wording that changes what an attorney may do or for choosing between competing family interests.
- AI cannot witness signatures, act as the certificate provider or submit the legal document for you.
- AI cannot reliably spot every consequence of an unusual restriction or instruction without a solicitor reviewing the circumstances.
- AI should not receive unnecessary identity documents or private medical and financial information.
What caps this at PARTLY: legal accountability, verification cost and judgement under ambiguity.
How we scored this
Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.
| Axis | Score (0–2) |
|---|---|
| Output | 2 |
| Inputs | 2 |
| Verification | 1 |
| Liability | 0 |
| Effort delta | 2 |
| Total | 7 / 10 |
The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.
FAQ
- Can AI fill in a lasting power of attorney form?
- Partly. AI can explain fields, organise your information and produce a checklist, but you must make the decisions, complete the official form, arrange signing and deal with registration. This is not professional advice; ask a solicitor about capacity, coercion, unusual instructions or family disagreement.
- Is it safe to use ChatGPT for a lasting power of attorney?
- It is reasonable for explaining the form and preparing questions, if you remove unnecessary personal data and check the result against current GOV.UK guidance. Do not rely on it to decide capacity or the legal effect of restrictions, and remember that this is not professional advice.
- Do I need a solicitor to make a lasting power of attorney?
- You do not always need one to complete the standard process, but a solicitor should check a serious or unusual case. That includes doubts about the donor's capacity, suspected pressure, disagreement between relatives, complex finances or instructions that restrict an attorney's powers.
- What can AI not do for a lasting power of attorney?
- It cannot assess the donor in person, certify their understanding, witness signatures or accept legal responsibility if the document is wrong. It also cannot replace a solicitor's judgement on capacity, coercion, conflicts or unusual wording.
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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.
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