How to get a power of attorney

Granting a power is the act by which a person confers his legal representation to another for the actions he deems appropriate and so specify in said power. It is a procedure that is performed before a notary, which is why it is known as a power of attorney . It is revocable but very important, since it allows carrying out binding procedures to the person who holds it. We explain how this procedure is carried out.

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The power of attorney can be delegated by a natural or legal person, an individual or a company, over someone to act on their behalf in certain matters that have to be included in the public document . It can be a power of attorney for a specific procedure and with a specific date or for as many steps as were necessary in any field for an indeterminate period of time.

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If it is a power that a company grants to its director, manager, or similar, it is a general power of attorney, in which all the necessary faculties are granted to develop the activity of the company: tax, fiscal, banking, procedural representation, mercantile, etc.

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The notary will explain that a power is the faculty or authorization given to another person to perform and execute certain legal and material acts . The proxy does not have to accept power, it is a unilateral business of the principal. Moreover, you may not know that you have been granted power, because it is enough that the principal goes to the notary and grants it.

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The power is revocable on the part of the principal, by means of another later writing, being without effect, therefore. The revocations are currently recorded in the Notarial Archive of Powers Revocation, within the SIC, which is an internal system for any notary can verify if a power of attorney that is presented is current at that time or has been revoked and, therefore, it is ineffective. For example, the power of procedural representation, or a power to sell a flat, or to collect an academic degree, or to make the inheritance partition, etc.