Wollens Care and Capacity Team
Who are we?
We are the leading lawyers based all across Devon working with clients who lack capacity to make decisions about their property and affairs and health and welfare. We work with clients, their families and carers to navigate the legal and practical complexities of making decisions with and for those who lack capacity about their affairs.
We are an approachable yet award-winning team with a wealth of experience and a high degree of empathy. We help find sensible solutions to complex problems and can guide you through the legal maze of care and capacity law with compassion and confidence. We strongly believe in protecting and promoting the rights of individuals to make their own choices and decisions about the most important aspects of their lives whether it is where someone should live or the care that they should receive to what they want to wear today – and everything in between.
What do we do?
Our specialist team advises on many aspects of mental capacity and community care law including:
- Making powers of attorney
- Managing money for someone else who cannot manage it themselves
- Concerns about an adult’s mental capacity
- Questions about where someone should live (for example, someone moving to a care home)
- Advice on deprivation of liberty applications and challenges
- Paying for care fees
- Questions about what care services an adult requires (for example, social services care, private carers at home)
- Court of Protection work
- Managing client’s financial affairs
- Making health and welfare decisions
- Best interests’ decisions for adults lack mental capacity to make their own decisions
- Safeguarding decisions for adults
Clients can lose capacity to make decisions for themselves for many reasons including acquiring a brain injury, developing dementia or being born with learning difficulties. In addition, poor health and chronic addiction to drugs or alcohol can also cause people to become mentally incapable of making decisions. We support the clients and their families to make decisions about all manner of matters from where someone should live or whether or not someone has capacity to engage in relationships to paying their bills and helping manage their budgets and paying for care.
Some people may lack capacity on a temporary basis, and we can help maintain a status quo and support a client until they can return to making their own decisions. Some clients can make some decisions themselves, but not make other decisions.
To find out more about our care and capacity services, and our fixed-fee pricing packages, contact us today on 01271 342268 for an informal chat, without obligation.
Related Services:
Contact Us
North, South, East or West. Wherever you are, we’ve got you covered. Contact us today for an informal chat, without obligation. We look forward to hearing from you.
Wills, probate & private client news
Probate and avoiding problems with chattels
Royalty payments often require more careful consideration than a lot of other estate assets and should be dealt with by a professionally drafted will.
Business planning and the importance of making a will
What is the Trust Registration Service?
When does a power of attorney take effect?
If you have been asked to act as an attorney for someone you may wonder when it will come into effect, especially if the power of attorney was made some time ago when your friend or relative was in good health. ‘There was an important change in 2007, and so the way...
Wollens Earns Accreditation as a Great Place to Work-Certified™ Company!
We are delighted to share that Wollens solicitors has been officially accredited as a Great Place to Work-Certified™ organisation. Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, they have surveyed over 100 million employees around the...
Iain Douglas celebrates 40 years at Wollens !
If you are going through a divorce, you may have heard the term ‘clean break order’. We take a look at what this is and why it is important to secure a financial order when you end your marriage.
Avoiding common delays in obtaining probate
Probate is a term which is loosely used to cover the administration of an estate, and it has a reputation for being a lengthy process. The administration includes a number of key stages, including obtaining the grant of probate, paying out to beneficiaries, and...
Brave souls at Mission:Unbreakable 2022 !
A team of brave souls took part in Mission:Unbreakable at the weekend. The event supports North Devon Hospice and Wollens are delighted to be the headline sponsor for this event which is one of the biggest fund raising initiatives that the Hospice undertake....
Wollens celebrate inclusion within Legal 500 rankings!
Wollens is delighted to secure a place in the prestigious Legal 500 directory 2023 edition. The Legal 500 is the leading guide to law firms and solicitors in the UK. The rankings reflect the result of months of extensive analysis by the research team, who conduct...
Passing on royalties after you die
Royalty payments often require more careful consideration than a lot of other estate assets and should be dealt with by a professionally drafted will.
Legal steps to consider when diagnosed with a life-limiting illness
On top of the heartbreak and worry that a diagnosis of a life-limiting illness can cause, there will be a raft of concerns and uncertainties about your care and financial affairs, and it can be difficult to know exactly how to prepare from a legal standpoint. ‘There...
