Power of attorney and general power of attorney
Need someone to handle a matter for you, or to represent you broadly? With Contractik you create a power of attorney on your phone. Choose a specific power of attorney for a particular matter or a general power of attorney for all matters.
Suitable for
- Specific power of attorney (only stated matters) or general power of attorney (all matters)
- Banking, real estate transactions, buying or selling a vehicle, collecting mail or packages, contact with authorities, healthcare, estates, insurance, tax returns, housing cooperatives and more
- Selling, buying, representing, collecting, signing, paying invoices, receiving payment, voting or applying to authorities
What the power of attorney contains
- Principal and attorney: name, personal identity number or company registration number, address, phone and email
- Type of power of attorney, matter and action
- Whether the attorney may sign documents and appoint someone else in their place
- Compensation: none, a reasonable fee or as stated in other terms
- Reporting: continuously, after completion or on request
- Validity: ongoing or a fixed period
- Other description
- General terms (see below)
- Signatures
Sign in person or remotely
Both sign directly on the phone, send a signing link by email, or print the agreement and sign on paper. Someone who receives a link does not need the app.
General terms included+
These are the terms included in the Contractik agreement. "Above" refers to the details you fill in in the agreement.
- The attorney-in-fact may only act within the scope and any limitations stated above.
- If the power of attorney is stated above as a general power of attorney, it covers all of the grantor's legal and financial affairs, but not highly personal legal acts (e.g. drafting a will) that cannot be carried out through a power of attorney.
- The power of attorney applies from signing, or from the stated start date, until it is revoked or the stated end date expires.
- The grantor may revoke the power of attorney at any time. Revocation shall be made in the same way the power of attorney was issued, or by reclaiming or destroying the document.
- If the power of attorney concerns the purchase, sale or exchange of real property or a tenant-owned apartment, the law requires it to be in writing, which this document satisfies.
- The attorney-in-fact shall act in the interest of the grantor and according to any instructions given.
- If it is stated above that the attorney-in-fact may appoint another person in their place, the attorney-in-fact is responsible for ensuring that the appointed person acts within the scope of the power of attorney.
- Compensation to the attorney-in-fact, if any, is paid as stated above.
- Under general agency rules (Chapter 18 of the Commercial Code), the attorney-in-fact is required to account for their actions to the grantor, to the extent stated above.
- The power of attorney automatically ceases upon the grantor's death unless otherwise stated in the power of attorney.
- A third party who in good faith relies on the power of attorney is protected under the Contracts Act, as long as the action is within the authority stated in the power of attorney.
- The agreement is governed by Swedish law.
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