Nationwide Building Society

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN0840659 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

—no sum stated

Thu Aug 24deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Bereavement and power of attorney

In the Ombudsman’s words

Mr R complains that Nationwide Building Society would not accept his authority to register a Lasting Power Of Attorney (LPA) on his mother’s account.Bereavement and power of attorney

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN0840659.pdf on financial-ombudsman.org.uk.

The outcome shown is the Ombudsman’s own published classification, not our reading of the text. Nothing here is legal advice, and a decision concerns only the complaint it was made about.