Power of attorney to receive documents, how to make it?

Power of attorney to receive documents, how to make it?

If the circumstances have developed in such a way that you cannot personally pick up the documents, then you can issue a power of attorney. So you will give legal authority to the person you trust.
How to properly issue it and whether it is worth notarizing it — we will tell you further.

What is a power of attorney?
According to Ukrainian legislation, individuals and legal entities exercise their civil rights either themselves or through representatives. Sometimes citizens cannot perform any legally significant action on their own — to conclude a transaction, to perform registration actions, to receive valuables, to appear in court.

In this case, you can entrust such actions to your representative. In most cases, the legal basis for the representation of one person by another is a power of attorney.

What powers of attorney are there?
Powers of attorney can be one-time, that is, issued for one specific action (for example, for a specific transaction), or they can be special, that is, transfer rights to a number of homogeneous actions (for example, to receive any documents from a bank).

In addition, a general power of attorney is widely known, when a representative can carry out a wide range of actions in relation to some property belonging to the represented.

What is the validity period of the power of attorney?
The validity period can be any, it all depends on the decision being submitted.
There can’t be an indefinite power of attorney. If the validity period of the power of attorney is not specified, it remains valid for one year from the date of signing.

How to draw up and certify a power of attorney with a notary?
The process of issuing a notarized power of attorney from an individual to an individual is extremely simple. All you need is to come to the notary’s office with the necessary details for a power of attorney:

• Passport data and addresses of the principal and attorney;
• List of delegated powers;
• Information about the possibility or impossibility of transfer;
• The name of the institution where the documents should be obtained by proxy (name, full name of the official, etc.);

Before certifying the power of attorney, the notary will warn about the legal consequences of issuing a power of attorney in order to avoid abuse and violations of the rights and interests of each of the parties.
Then the notary will establish the identity of the person who applied, check the legal capacity, if necessary, help to draw up a power of attorney and certify it. When certifying the power of attorney, the notary will explain the right to provide in the power of attorney the possibility of transferring the powers. In addition, the right to cancel the power of attorney and the procedure for its cancellation are also explained.

The notary enters information about notarized powers of attorney into the unified register. This information can be obtained in the Power of attorney verification service.