Hi
My wife and I live in Australia and are both Australian citizens of Indian origin. We wish to buy a propoerty in India jointly in our names and we cannot be present there we wish to give General Power of Attorney to a relative in India. I will be grateful if you can advise me:
1. Can we use a JOINT Power Of Attorney document (where my wife and I, on the same document, jointly confer the General Power of attorney) nominating this relative as our attorney OR should each of us (My wife and I) confer a General Power of Attorney individually by means of two SEPARATE DOCUMENTS? I have been getting conflicting advice from friends here but then they are not lawyers. Some say that the document will only be valid if each of us use a separate document each. PLEASE ADVICE.
2. I understand that the process is a) Get two witnesses to witness our signature/s b) Get the document/s Notorised from an Australian Notary Public c) Get the Notarised document "aposilled" (or authenticated , confirming the credentials of the Notary Public) from the relevant an Australian Government agency (DFAT) and d) Take this Notorised and aposilled document to Indian Consulate for their stamp e) Mail the original document to my authorised Attorney (Relative) f) My attorney then takes the sealed and unopened envelope to the Sub_registrar office in India and gets the GPOA "registered". IS THIS ADVICE CORRECT?
I look forward to your learned counsel on this matter. Thank you.
Regards
Oz Shankar
