Cheapest Way to Get Power of Attorney UK 2026

The cheapest way to get a power of attorney

The honest answer to this search: the cheapest way to make a Lasting Power of Attorney is free, and there are two ways to do it. The government's own tool at GOV.UK is free. Making your LPA with myLPA is also free. Nobody should be paying for the document itself in 2026.

What nobody escapes is the registration fee. The Office of the Public Guardian charges £92 per LPA to register it, whoever prepared it. That fee goes to the government. If you are on certain means-tested benefits it can be waived, and if your gross annual income is under £12,000 you may pay half (£46).

So the real comparison is not about price any more. It is about what happens between filling in the form and signing it.

Every option compared

The document is the same official OPG form in every row. It carries the same legal standing whether it cost you nothing or several hundred pounds. What you are choosing is who helps you fill it in, and whether anyone reads your answers before you sign.

Free and unchecked: GOV.UK

The government's tool produces the right documents and costs nothing. Its weakness is that nobody looks at what you have entered. If your certificate provider is ineligible, or your signing order is wrong, or your instructions contradict your attorney arrangement, the first you hear of it is a rejection letter from the OPG weeks later — often with the £92 spent. The most common of those mistakes are covered here.

If you are careful, confident with forms, and have someone to sanity-check your choices, DIY on GOV.UK is a perfectly good route.

Free and checked: myLPA

Our service is also free. You answer plain-English questions, we generate the official OPG forms, and then a qualified estate planner rings you and goes through every answer — your attorneys, how they act together, your certificate provider, who signs first and in what order. Then you sign.

We will not tell you a check makes rejection impossible, because registration is the OPG's decision, not ours. What we promise is this: if the OPG rejects an LPA for something we checked, we correct it and cover the £92 to register it again.

How is it free? We charge for optional extras only. If you want us to print, post and check your signed documents before they go to the OPG, that is £99. If you have no one who can act as your certificate provider, we can arrange one, and your estate planner will explain that option on your call. Take neither and you pay us nothing. The full breakdown is on our prices page.

Paying a solicitor

Solicitors typically charge £300 to £650 per LPA, before the same OPG fees. For a couple making all four documents, quotes over a thousand pounds are normal.

For a straightforward family LPA, that money buys an appointment rather than a better document. But some situations justify it: complex business or trust arrangements, contentious family circumstances where a challenge is likely, or assets across several countries. If that sounds like you, pay for the advice — and if we hear that kind of complexity on your check call, we will say so.

What a couple pays

Two people making both types of LPA each need four documents. With myLPA, making all four is free. The OPG registration fees come to £368 (four at £92), unless one or both of you qualifies for a reduction. That is the entire cost.

The most expensive option: not making one

If you lose capacity without an LPA, your family must apply to the Court of Protection for a deputyship. That route involves court fees, usually solicitor fees, and an ongoing annual supervision fee, and it takes months — while bank accounts stay frozen and a judge decides who acts for you. It reliably costs a family more than every option in the table above put together.

Start your LPA. It is free to make, a person checks it with you before you sign, and the only compulsory cost on any route is the government's £92.