As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly set up a lasting power of attorney for your parent.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

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 the relevant GOV.UK page for making a lasting power of attorney and confirm whether the arrangement is for England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.
   2. Read the GOV.UK explanations of property and financial affairs LPAs and health and welfare LPAs, and note which type or types your parent is considering.
   3. Gather the official forms or online application details, plus the names and contact details of the proposed donor, attorneys, certificate provider and replacement attorneys if applicable.
   4. Ask your parent directly whether they understand what the LPA does, agree freely to it and want the proposed attorneys; do not proceed on their behalf if capacity or pressure is in doubt.
   5. Paste the current GOV.UK guidance and the prompt into a chatbot, using only the minimum personal information needed, then save its checklist and questions.
   6. Compare every item in the chatbot's checklist with the current GOV.UK forms and instructions, correcting or deleting anything the official source does not support.
   7. Complete the official form or online application, arrange the required signatures, witnesses and certificate provider in the order stated by GOV.UK, and send or register it using the official instructions.
   8. Ask a solicitor for advice before signing if there is disagreement, suspected coercion, uncertainty about capacity, a complex family or financial situation, or any concern that the LPA does not reflect your parent's wishes.

   Prompt

   I am helping my parent arrange a lasting power of attorney in England and Wales. This is for planning and document preparation only, not professional advice. Do not decide what is suitable for my parent, do not diagnose whether they have mental capacity, do not invent legal requirements, and do not fill in facts that I have not supplied.
   
   Use only the official GOV.UK guidance that I paste below, and clearly label anything that is missing or uncertain. Explain the difference between a property and financial affairs LPA and a health and welfare LPA. Then produce:
   1. A plain-English checklist of the people involved, information needed, forms or sections to complete, signing and witnessing steps, notification steps and registration steps.
   2. A table showing who is responsible for each step: donor, attorney, certificate provider, witness or the Office of the Public Guardian.
   3. Questions I must answer before completing anything, including whether my parent understands and freely agrees to the arrangement. Do not answer those questions for me.
   4. A list of situations where I should stop and ask a solicitor for advice, such as disagreement, suspected pressure or lack of capacity.
   5. A final checklist that I can compare line by line with the current GOV.UK instructions.
   
   Details I can safely provide:
   - Country and jurisdiction: [England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland]
   - LPA type being considered: [property and financial affairs, health and welfare, both or unsure]
   - People who may be involved: [brief non-sensitive description]
   - Questions or concerns: [brief description]
   
   Official GOV.UK guidance:
   [PASTE THE CURRENT GOV.UK GUIDANCE HERE]

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.