To get the best help for your situation, first answer the questions on the Preliminary questions page.
What to do
Guardianship and continuing power of attorney
- Preliminary questions
- Take these steps
- Prepare for the future with a continuing power of attorney
- Preparing a continuing power of attorney
- Content of a continuing power of attorney document
- Keeping and validating the continuing power of attorney document
- Cancelling or changing the continuing power of attorney
- Identifying the situation
- Starting to use the power of attorney
- Managing matters with a continuing power of attorney
- End of the continuing power of attorney
- Identifying the situation of a close person
- Applying for guardianship
- During the guardianship
- Guardianship ends or the guardian is replaced
- When does a child need a guardian?
- Duties of a child’s guardian
- You guardianship duties are ending
- Help with managing finances
- Applying for a guardian for yourself
- If a guardian is appointed to me
- Changing guardians or termination of guardianship
- Checklist
Cancelling or changing the continuing power of attorney
Can I change or cancel the continuing power of attorney?
If you want to change the contents of the continuing power of attorney, you must prepare a new power of attorney document. It will replace the old one.
If you want to cancel the document before it has been confirmed, you can do so by destroying all copies of the original continuing power of attorney.
If you want to cancel it after it has been confirmed, you must send an application to the Digital and Population Data Services Agency.
Updated: 18/12/2023