Our mission
Nobody should pay £1,000 for a form they could fill in themselves.
A lasting power of attorney is one of the most important documents you will ever sign, and one of the easiest to get wrong. myLPA exists because the two existing options both fail people: doing it alone on GOV.UK means nobody checks your answers, and paying an estate planner means paying hundreds of pounds for a form you could have completed yourself with a little support.
Free to make. The Office of the Public Guardian charges £92 to register each LPA. That fee goes to the government, not to us. You may not have to pay it — some people qualify for a reduction or an exemption.
The two ways people did this before
Both work. Both have a cost that isn’t obvious until it’s too late.
Do it yourself
Free, but nobody checks it.
GOV.UK lets you make an LPA for nothing, and for straightforward cases that is a perfectly good choice. But the service does not read your answers back to you, and it does not ring you. If you sign in the wrong order or name an attorney in a way the Office of the Public Guardian won’t accept, you find out weeks later — after paying the £92 to register it.
Pay a professional
Checked, but expensive.
A solicitor or estate planner will get it right, and typically charges £300 to £650 per LPA to do it. For a couple wanting both types, that is four documents and can run past £1,000 — for the same official forms, filled in with the same answers you would have given yourself.
What we built
Free to make, and a person checks it before you sign.
myLPA lets you make the official Office of the Public Guardian lasting power of attorney forms for free online, in your own time, without speaking to anyone. You see your draft documents as you build them. When you are done, a qualified estate planner rings you, goes through every answer, and tells you exactly who signs what and in what order. That call is free, and you can ask them anything.
The only unavoidable cost is the government’s £92 registration fee per LPA, which you pay to the Office of the Public Guardian whichever route you take — including GOV.UK.
How we make money, in one paragraph
The estate planners who make the check calls belong to an accredited network, and they pay us a fee when a customer chooses to buy one of their services. That is the whole model. You are never obliged to buy anything, it costs you no more if you do, and the LPA you made is yours to keep and register yourself either way.
We also sell three optional things: printing, posting and checking your signed documents, and a will. You can see exactly what they cost on our prices page. If you’d rather not pay us anything, we email your finished documents and you print them at home.
What we won’t claim
We will not tell you that registration is guaranteed, because the Office of the Public Guardian decides that and we don’t. We are not a firm of solicitors and we do not give legal advice. We cover England and Wales only — Scotland and Northern Ireland use different documents and a different registering body.
If the OPG rejects an LPA for something we checked, we correct it and cover the £92 to register it again.
Questions about how myLPA works
Why is myLPA free?
Making a lasting power of attorney with myLPA is free because the check calls are made by estate planners in an accredited network, who pay us a fee when a customer chooses to buy one of their services. You are never obliged to buy anything, and the LPA you make is yours either way.
What does myLPA actually do?
myLPA generates the official Office of the Public Guardian lasting power of attorney forms — LP1F for property and financial affairs, LP1H for health and welfare — from plain-English questions you answer online. A qualified estate planner then rings you and checks every answer before you sign anything.
How much does a lasting power of attorney cost in England and Wales?
The only unavoidable cost is the government registration fee, which is £92 per LPA, paid to the Office of the Public Guardian. Making the forms is free on GOV.UK and free with myLPA. A solicitor typically charges £300 to £650 per LPA on top of the registration fee. Reductions and exemptions on the £92 apply to people on certain means-tested benefits or with a gross annual income under £12,000.
Is myLPA a firm of solicitors?
No. myLPA is not a firm of solicitors and does not give legal advice. It checks that your forms are completed and signed in a way the Office of the Public Guardian will accept. If your situation needs legal advice, the estate planner will tell you so.
Make yours. It costs nothing to find out.
Answer the questions in your own time, see your draft documents, and decide afterwards whether you want anything from us at all.