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As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly fill in your lasting power of attorney form.

This still needs a person who signs their name to it.

Can you do it?

5 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 costsThe available source data gives no price for a solicitor or LPA service.

If this goes wrong, the LPA may be rejected or give your attorneys powers you did not intend, and correcting the problem can require a new form and professional help.

What to actually do

  1. Hand it to a person

    The route this page recommends

    Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.

  2. Use a tool built for this

    Second choice

  3. Do it yourself

    The distant third

    A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 1 hour until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open GOV.UK and download the current lasting power of attorney form for either property and financial affairs or health and welfare.
    2. Read the GOV.UK guidance and decide which type of LPA you are making, without asking the chatbot to choose between them.
    3. Gather the donor's identity details, each attorney's details, any replacement attorney details, and the instructions or preferences you are considering.
    4. Paste the prompt into a chatbot and upload the blank official form together with only the information needed to complete it.
    5. Copy the proposed entries into the official form, leaving signatures, signing dates, witness details and the certificate provider's declaration blank.
    6. Compare every name, address and date against the relevant identity documents, and take any flagged choice about powers, instructions or preferences to a solicitor or the Office of the Public Guardian.
    7. Arrange the required signatures, witnesses and certificate provider process, then check the completed form against the current GOV.UK registration guidance before sending it through the official process.

    Prompt

    I am completing a UK lasting power of attorney using the current form from GOV.UK. I will upload the blank form and provide the relevant facts below.

LPA type: [property and financial affairs / health and welfare]
Donor's full legal name, date of birth and address: [insert]
Attorneys' full legal names and addresses: [insert]
Replacement attorneys, if any: [insert or none]
How attorneys should act: [jointly / jointly and severally / unsure]
Instructions I want written into the LPA: [insert or none]
Preferences I want recorded: [insert or none]
Certificate provider details: [insert if known]

Help me map these facts to the correct boxes in the uploaded official form. Do not invent facts, choose attorneys, decide legal options, or turn an uncertain preference into an instruction. Flag every missing or ambiguous answer in a separate list. Explain in plain English what each relevant choice means, without telling me which choice is right for my circumstances. Do not fill in signatures, dates of signing, witness details or the certificate provider's declaration. Check that names, addresses and dates are used consistently. Finish with a checklist of the people who must sign, witness or certify the form and the steps for checking the current GOV.UK registration process. State clearly that this is not professional advice and tell me which questions should be taken to a solicitor or the Office of the Public Guardian.

    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 a property and financial affairs LPA, a health and welfare LPA, or both are appropriate for your circumstances.
  • AI cannot judge whether your proposed instructions or preferences are clear, workable and legally effective.
  • AI cannot replace the certificate provider, witnesses, attorneys or your signature in the formal process.
  • AI cannot take responsibility if the LPA is rejected or gives an attorney powers you did not mean to grant.
  • AI cannot reliably identify family, financial or capacity issues that make a solicitor's advice important.

What caps this at PARTLY: legal accountability, judgement under ambiguity and verification cost.

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.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output1
Inputs2
Verification1
Liability0
Effort delta1
Total5 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can ChatGPT fill in a lasting power of attorney form?
It can help transfer your factual details into the UK form and identify missing fields. It cannot choose suitable legal powers for you, sign or witness the form, act as the certificate provider, or take responsibility for the result.
Do I need a solicitor to make a lasting power of attorney?
You can make an LPA without a solicitor, but a solicitor is sensible if you are unsure about the type of LPA, attorney arrangements, restrictions or instructions. This is not professional advice, and a serious or disputed situation needs a solicitor.
Can AI choose my attorneys for me?
No. AI can explain the practical difference between arrangements such as attorneys acting jointly or jointly and severally, but it cannot assess who is trustworthy, suitable or able to act for you. That decision is yours, with a solicitor's advice where needed.
Can AI submit my lasting power of attorney?
AI cannot complete the signatures, witnessing and certificate provider steps or take responsibility for sending a valid application. Use the current GOV.UK registration instructions and check any uncertainty with the Office of the Public Guardian or a solicitor.

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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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