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Office Closure – Monday 9 September 2024, Please note that the office will be closed on 9 September 2024 for the local holiday. The office will reopen at 9am on Tuesday 10 September 2024. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause
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Office closure and limited PoA services, The office will be closed on Friday 24th & Monday 27th January 2025 to allow the transfer of all records held on our old case management system to the new system. Please note that due to staff training the power of attorney (PoA) team will be unable to assist with telephone enquiries on Tuesday 28th January 2025. If your PoA enquiry is urgent, please email opg@scotcourts.gov.uk and mark your email as urgent in the subject line and we will get back to you as soon as we can. We thank you
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Office closure – Public holidays on 2 & 3 June 2022, To commemorate Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, the office will be closed on Thursday 2 June and Friday 3 June 2022. The office will re-open at 9am on Monday 6 June 2022. Apologies are offered in advance for any inconvenience caused
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% clean standard and thus be returned to you for amendment. Accounting form, Valuations for stocks and shares do not match the evidence submitted Closing balances do not match bank statements due to way details are lodged in the client ledger Adding or deducting monies due to or from the estate to match opening and closing balances – meaning the account does not accurately, Debts shown as negative closing balances Including transactions that occur out with the account period
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Solicitors are often appointed as an attorney or a substitute attorney. However if a professional is no longer willing to act or take up the appointment e.g. they leave the firm, they should advise their clients of this. Contacting clients at the earliest opportunity allows for appropriate arrangements, and/or amendments to be made to deeds whilst the granter has capacity and in a position to approve such a change
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explaining more about powers of attorney helpful.
Certificates of registration We offer a clerical, to be a valid form of legal authority. The certificate attached to a clerical registration carries the crest on the certificate and all pages of the PoA. Clerical PoAs (those sent to us via the postal, different to the clerically produced one. This certificate has a crest watermark running through it, as will each page of the PoA. It is clearly outlined at the foot of each page that the pages must
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guardians must open a bank or designated client account in the name of each adult. The bank statements, /final account (if you use a client ledger copies of this can be included with the bank statements, automatically, we would expect revaluations to be sought every 3 – 5 years.).
Expenses Q. Can I claim, at £140 per hour, up to a maximum of 10% of the adult’s estate at the close of the accounting period (excluding heritable property). Q. Claims for travel expenses to check on the adult’s property
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Update on office closure
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the expiry date of their order. As the ‘clock was stopped’ from 7th April up to and including 29th, . The following example may help clarify the position: • Original guardianship expiry date; 20 April 2020 Add
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will be resumed. Guardians will need to re-calculate the expiry date of their order. As the clock was stopped, be added on to the original expiry date. The following example may help clarify the position