Canadian Power of Attorney Registry
Helping you Find, Authenticate, and Use Substitute Decision-Making Documents with Confidence
COMMON CONCERNS
Is this document a counterfeit?
Can the SDM use the authority?
Is the decision-maker incapable?
Use/activate your document using our Registry Certificate
and Activate-You.
Click the circle to discover the benefits of our Registry Certificate
We want to work with all storage providers to create a unified and centralized registry system for consumers.
Set your substitute decision-makers up to succeed with our secure resources accessed any time to make more timely interventions.
Pre-defined access for your substitute decision-making stakeholders with enhanced safeguards (i.e. ID Verification and QR codes).
Reduce the risk of a counterfeit Power of Attorney by connecting the point of signing to the time it is used, reducing the need for notarial copies.
POA Registry is actively growing the information sharing agreements with organizations (i.e. legal practitioners, hospitals, law enforcement, banks, etc.) to ensure this information is accessed and exchanged securely.
“If we expect our substitute decision maker to step in and protect our interests, this information should not be a secret locked in a vault. Our unique Registry Keys are designed to connect all stakeholders with a safe and predictable path to identify, access, and activate your substitute decision maker at the time of need.”
– Nathan Spaling, Co-founder
What does the POA Registry do?
1. Verify compliance with Provincial/Territorial requirements
2. Verify the identity of the substitute decision makers
3. Improve confidence in the activation process
4. Improve the connectivity of the Grantor’s stakeholders to the substitute decision maker
5. Consolidate storage locations
How does the POA Registry work?
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After you upload the document appointing a substitute decision maker, we issue keys to various parties who have a specific procedure to follow in order to access and/or activate a Power of Attorney.
Our innovative technology will help you plan for incapacity with the confidence that your substitute decision makers will have access at the time of need.
While anybody can make a request to register or activate a document, only your lawyer/compliance department or our internal compliance department may approve the request.
About Powers of Attorney -> to FAQ
When a person is unable/incapable of making decisions, they can authorize another person to make decisions on their behalf.
Appointing a substitute decision-maker falls under Provincial/Territorial authority; therefore, the documents may have different names – with Power of Attorney being the most common.
The typical areas for authority are:
- decisions related to personal/health care;
- decisions related to managing property/finances;
- a specific decision (i.e. sell a house only).
No, it is intended to support any substitute-decision-making appointments authorized in Canada, including:
- Continuing Power of Attorney for Property
- Power of Attorney for Care
- Power of Attorney for Health Care
- Limited/Specific Power of Attorney
- General Power of Attorney
- Enduring Power of Attorney
- Springing Power of Attorney
- Representative Agreement
- Advanced Directive
- Personal Directive
- Power of Attorney for Healthcare
- Non-continuing Power of Attorney for Property
- Healthcare directive
- Care Directive
- Advanced Health Care Directive
What is it?
Power of Attorney fraud is a subset of fraud that happens when a power of attorney is improperly obtained, or the authority is improperly used.
What are Some Examples of How the Fraud can Occur?
Since a substitute decision-maker can do anything on your behalf except make a Will, this creates the potential for a wide range of fraud and abuse, including:
- withdrawing funds from a bank account
- authorizing a mortgage on a property.
- selling property (including vacant land).
- spending the money on themselves
Powers of Attorney are high risk even for compliance departments or lawyers:
- have no independent resources to track if the Power of Attorney being presented is last-in-time
- have no verification of the identity of the substitute decision maker
- have limited procedures to determine whether the Power of Attorney should be activated
- have no ability to verify whether the Power of Attorney is valid or a counterfeit.
Capacity applies to every sector and business which requires multidisciplinary input.
Our collaboration continues to seek input from valued stakeholders, but its concept is built by multidisciplinary experts/leaders within the field of substitute decision-making, including:
- Expert capacity evaluators (geriatric psychiatrist and neuropsychologist)
- Lawyers (privacy, real estate, estate planning, estate litigation)
- Social service worker
- Health care administration
- Financial advisors
Multidisciplinary practitioners have created meaningful procedures related to activation using technology to streamline timely information – including the impact of medical information on decision-making.
There are three ways to register a document.
- Make a request to your lawyer to register on your behalf. If your lawyer does not have an account, Click here to request credentials.
Your lawyer will receive the acknowledgement and direction to sign at the same time as your other documents which provides your lawyer authorization to register the document accordingly. - Make a request to your service provider to have their legal compliance resources to register on your behalf
- Click here to make a request to our internal compliance department
When a document is registered, a unique key is issued to the Grantor, the Substitute Decision Maker, the Authorized Data Custodian, and the Service Providers.
Each role is permitted to search, access, and/or activate the authority set by the document. We believe that someone’s substitute decision-making information should not be confidential if service providers are investigating the incapacity of a decision-maker. This means that a hospital, financial organizations, and/or legal entities will be able to access this information if investigating incapacity or activating a Power of Attorney.
Our legal and clinical specialists are unique and have a demonstrated history interpreting the impact of some of the most complex conditions and/or disabilities – including as an expert witness for the courts.
Approaching the Most Common Areas of Concern
POA Registry Partners with Custodius!
The Canadian Power of Attorney Registry is excited to announce a partnership with Custodius, Canada’s first company dedicated to storing and registering wills, offering secure
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