I’m really pleased that Mark has written about this subject as it is something that has bothered me for a long time.
We allowed ourselves to be cheated because we gave Power of Attorney to lawyers that could not be trusted.
We consider ourselves lucky that it cost us only a few thousand euros and a year of heartache – others have lost far far more.
The lawyer we later consulted to advise us how to retrieve the situation would not make so much as a phone call without a Power of Attorney.
I realise that there are instances when this would be necessary – but is it as often as we are lead to believe?