We want to share an important update with our Betfair Community users.
Over the coming months, the Betfair Community platform will be winding down. The final active day for the platform will be December 21st. From December 22nd, users will no longer be able to access the platform.
Your discussions, insights, engagement, and, most importantly, feedback have helped shape the platform and guided innovation. Your feedback continues to be important to us, and we will continue to listen via our dedicated feedback channels, as well as through product testing and innovations.
To share your feedback and experience, visit: https://support.betfair.com/app/home
Chit Chat
Welcome to Live View – Take the tour to learn more
Start Tour
There is currently 1 person viewing this thread.
Wanting to propose "Power of Attorney" in favour of two of my kids, perchance I go "non compos mentis".
Phoned a local solicitor, told them what I wanted, and she said you need to call another number.
Got a guy who sounded like he was frightened of the phone, and I think his lips were sewn together!
Told him what I want to do, and that I was referred by their Finkle Street branch.
He asked if it was the Finkle street branch and I said yes I just told you that.
Next he said would you like me to give you their number!!!!!
Phoned a local solicitor, told them what I wanted, and she said you need to call another number.
Got a guy who sounded like he was frightened of the phone, and I think his lips were sewn together!
Told him what I want to do, and that I was referred by their Finkle Street branch.
He asked if it was the Finkle street branch and I said yes I just told you that.
Next he said would you like me to give you their number!!!!!
Show More
When you said "referred"....he thought you said "preferred"
....so got the impression you were after their number...at a guess.
....so got the impression you were after their number...at a guess.
Yes. Also thought you were quite possibly "fishing" - hence, subconsciously shut mouth to avoid being hooked...also, £10 bonus every time the Finkle Street branch is referred...at a guess.
That's nonsense. Why would I say I've been"preferred" by their other branch?
They don't do "Power of Attorney" proposals.
Anyway a woman just called me back, and I will have strong money that he is her son.
She was tying herself in knots, and by now I'm wanting to end it all, so I had to say "please lets make it simple. Are you saying it's
£250.00 + £150.00 which is £400.00".
She said, after a pause, "Yes that's right. 400.00 +vat"
So I said "so £480.00 then"?
Her "Let me just get a calculator".
In the name of sweet Jesus, please give me strength!
They don't do "Power of Attorney" proposals.
Anyway a woman just called me back, and I will have strong money that he is her son.
She was tying herself in knots, and by now I'm wanting to end it all, so I had to say "please lets make it simple. Are you saying it's
£250.00 + £150.00 which is £400.00".
She said, after a pause, "Yes that's right. 400.00 +vat"
So I said "so £480.00 then"?
Her "Let me just get a calculator".
In the name of sweet Jesus, please give me strength!
A case of shutting the stable door long after the horse has died in sunnier climes having bolted in the mid '80s.
If you are paying a lawyer for a power of attorney letter you are a mug.
You can get the wording off the internet... there are a few different types of POA so get the right one.
Then sign it in the prescemce of a reputable witness to confirm your signature and also sign it.
That'll be £200 + VAT thanks.
You can get the wording off the internet... there are a few different types of POA so get the right one.
Then sign it in the prescemce of a reputable witness to confirm your signature and also sign it.
That'll be £200 + VAT thanks.
* presence.... I'll knock a fiver off because of the typo. 
You certainly dont require a solicitor, for a Lasting Power of Attorney go to the www.gov website and there is a tenplate which guides you through the process.Have just completed one on behalf of my Ma ...cost 110 quid and 60quid if you can prove income is less than around 12k.Apart from having to print off a tree and obtaining several signatures in a particular order its a reasonably easy and will save you around a monkey.
you dont need to print off a tree, if you ring them they will post out the forms to you
donny, I have the forms but, like I said, it's a feking minefield.
If I make a mistake there is another fee for re-submission, and I only have forms for finances and property.
I have to send off for additional forms for "Health & Welfare" which also attracts a further fee.
How the hell can solicitor's costs go from £100.00 + or -, to £700.00 (that was the first price given today) in four years?
I'm going to attempt to be patient, and have a bash at the forms.
Pray for me please.....
If I make a mistake there is another fee for re-submission, and I only have forms for finances and property.
I have to send off for additional forms for "Health & Welfare" which also attracts a further fee.
How the hell can solicitor's costs go from £100.00 + or -, to £700.00 (that was the first price given today) in four years?
I'm going to attempt to be patient, and have a bash at the forms.
Pray for me please.....
pretty sure if you give them a ring they will check your forms before "submission"
You can do most things off the internet legalwise - just distribute the signed docs to the relevant parties. Fugh the lawyers - parasitic middle-class leeches living off fear and ignorance. And a big chunk of stupidity, tbh.
What was that game show where you had to avoid saying yes or no for 2 minutes called. Hughie Green the slimeball host?
What was that game show where you had to avoid saying yes or no for 2 minutes called. Hughie Green the slimeball host?
"Take Your Pick"......"The Yes Or No Interlude" Michael Miles
.
/www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUwuYhPO5Hs
.
/www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUwuYhPO5Hs
i'm planning to save to go overeas to view a volcano in my old age. it'll be cheaper than a co-op funeral. just parachute into a volcano. that's a plan for the future.
Well, I'm almost there. no thanks to their help desk staff.
I've had to mail them several times and then wait for a response of several days.
The initial application is twenty five pages which are all ready to go.
Next thing it has to be registered, but the process appears that they want another twenty eight pages.
I'm thinking that can't be right, as they already have the identical pages in the application.
I then mailed them to ask if they really did want all the forms, and also that I don't want to phone as I am very deaf on the phone.
His response....."I can confirm that we need the registration document"
"If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to call us on 0300 456 0300".
I've had to mail them several times and then wait for a response of several days.
The initial application is twenty five pages which are all ready to go.
Next thing it has to be registered, but the process appears that they want another twenty eight pages.
I'm thinking that can't be right, as they already have the identical pages in the application.
I then mailed them to ask if they really did want all the forms, and also that I don't want to phone as I am very deaf on the phone.
His response....."I can confirm that we need the registration document"
"If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to call us on 0300 456 0300".
Post Your Reply
Please login to post a reply.
Wonder
Instance ID: 13539