Legal: templates and forms

A power of attorney for one transaction or one kind of business in Austria: a visit to an authority, collecting a document, registering a car, handing over a flat, a single sale. Under § 1008 of the Austrian Civil Code (ABGB) it must name the business precisely — for a gift or accepting an inheritance, the single transaction. Before authorities it proves the agent’s authority in writing (§ 10 AVG, § 83 BAO). With an expiry date, restrictions and room for certification if it is used in the land register. In German, ready to print and sign.

For asking someone to do one specific thing in your place when you cannot be there: collect a document, sign a lease or a contract, sell or buy a vehicle, represent you at an appointment. You describe the act, and the power covers that act only, until the date you choose (articles 1987 and 1989 of the French Civil Code). A voting proxy is made free on maprocuration.gouv.fr, and, for an act before a notary, the notary provides the power of attorney required. Signed by the principal, with a copy of their ID.

A Polish power of attorney for an act beyond ordinary management — selling a car, signing a particular contract, collecting money, handling a specific matter — setting out the act, its limits, how long it lasts, and whether the agent may appoint a substitute or contract with themselves. Where the act needs a special form, the power of attorney needs the same one — selling real estate requires a notarial deed, as the document warns.

For anyone who cannot attend and asks a trusted person to carry out one act in their name: signing a contract, collecting a sum, representing them at a condominium meeting or before an office. The Italian power describes the act, its limits and its end date. If the act needs a special form – selling a house or a car, an act to be registered – a notarial power or a notarised signature is required. For a simple errand a delegation (delega) is enough.

A Polish power of attorney for acts of ordinary management — running the principal's day-to-day affairs and property: paying bills, collecting post, managing a let flat, dealing with offices. It must be in writing on pain of nullity (art. 99 § 2 of the Civil Code). The document also states what it does not cover — selling property, loans, gifts — since those need a power of attorney naming the type of act or the act itself.

A private agreement between two partners living together in Cyprus without marriage or a civil partnership: the shared home and who has a right to it, how expenses are split, what belongs to each and what is shared, and how they settle up if they separate. The law does not regulate informal cohabitation, so the agreement records what would otherwise have to be proved. It is not a civil partnership: that is entered into under Law 184(I)/2015, by any couple, and has the effects of marriage except adoption.

For street lighting that does not work, potholes, an abandoned vehicle, illegal dumping, noise, a dangerous tree, a missing manhole cover. A report goes further than a phone call, because it is logged with a reference number and has to be answered. Describe the location as precisely as you can and say whether anyone is in danger — that is what determines how quickly it is dealt with.

For couples who live together without being married and want to set out in writing how they share household costs, who owns what and what happens if they separate. The agreement names their autonomous community and refers to its rules on registered couples; in Aragón, the Balearic Islands, Catalonia, Galicia, Navarre and the Basque Country their own regional civil law also applies, according to each partner’s civil residence (vecindad civil). It does not register the couple: registration uses the regional registry’s own form, free to download online. Both sign two copies. In Spanish.

Under Italian law a cohabitation contract is void unless made as a public deed or with signatures authenticated by a notary or a lawyer (article 1, paragraph 51, Law no. 76 of 20 May 2016): this is a draft to take to that professional, who checks it, authenticates the signatures and sends it to the Comune within ten days. For unmarried partners living together who want to settle their common residence, how they share the costs of life together and their property regime, with or without community of property.

For an unmarried couple without a PACS who live together in France and want to set their own rules in writing, since the law provides almost none (article 515-8 of the French Civil Code): who owns the furniture and purchases, how rent and expenses are shared, what happens to the home and joint property on separation. A list of each partner's property can be attached. Signed by both partners, in two copies. It creates no right to inherit from the other.

A power of attorney for one matter in Germany — collecting a document, registering or deregistering a car, handing over a flat, attending an appointment at an office. With the principal and the agent, the matter described precisely, any limits, an expiry date, the return of the document and a specimen of the agent's signature. Under the German Civil Code (BGB) a power of attorney needs no particular form, but the land registry, the commercial register or disclaiming an inheritance require a publicly certified signature. In German; fill in, print, sign by hand and hand over the original.

An agreement for couples living together in Poland without marrying: how they share housing and living costs, what each keeps as personal property, how things bought together are co-owned, how they settle up if they separate, and who leaves the home. Poland has no registered partnerships — the closest-person status law did not take effect after the Sejm failed to override the presidential veto in September 2026 — so these matters are settled by a civil-law contract.

The power of attorney by which you appoint someone you trust to act for you in Cyprus in a range of matters: at government departments, Citizen Service Centres and local authorities, the Tax Department and Social Insurance, banks and utilities. It sets the powers, what is left out — such as selling property — whether the attorney may appoint a substitute, and how long it lasts, and is signed before a certifying officer or at a Citizen Service Centre (KEP), which certifies the signature. For use abroad it also needs an apostille. Cyprus has no lasting power of attorney that survives the principal's loss of capacity.

The power of attorney for one specific act in Romania: collecting a document, representing someone at an office, signing a contract, receiving a payment. It describes the act exactly, the limits of the authority, whether the agent may deal with themselves or appoint a substitute, and until when it is valid. For acts that need notarial form — selling a home, for example — the power of attorney must be notarial too.

A general power of attorney for a bank or the Land Registry is granted before a notary in Spain (article 1280.5 of the Spanish Civil Code), and DocMuse does not sell one. This private mandate is for someone who asks a relative or trusted person to run everyday errands with individuals, companies and offices that accept it: collecting documents, raising utility complaints, dealing with the building administrator. It lists the errands, sets how long it lasts and excludes selling or charging property. Both sign it with a copy of their ID. In Spanish.

For anyone who wants a trusted person to handle their everyday affairs: paying bills and taxes, collecting money, picking up documents, dealing with the building’s condominium and with offices. Under Italian law a private power covers only ordinary administration and the acts expressly listed; selling or buying property, a gift or any act to be registered needs a notarial power. Banks and Poste Italiane may ask for their own forms. Signed by the principal and accepted by the agent.

For handing the day-to-day running of your affairs to someone close during an absence, a hospital stay or a stay abroad: paying bills, collecting income, dealing with public offices. Written in general terms, it covers acts of administration only (article 1988 of the French Civil Code); selling or giving away property needs an express power. To arrange your own protection in advance should your faculties decline, the mandat de protection future (Cerfa 13592 or a notarial deed) is the route the law provides. Signed by principal and agent, in two copies.

A general power of attorney for Austria that names what § 1008 of the Austrian Civil Code (ABGB) demands: a general power covers selling and buying, loans, collecting money, lawsuits and settlements only if these kinds of business are expressly named. It lists them, with banking, public authorities and the tax office, lets you add exceptions and further kinds, and says which acts need a separate special power. For the land register: a certified signature and no more than three years old. It is not a lasting power (Vorsorgevollmacht), which is made before a notary, lawyer or adult-protection association. In German.

gov.gr issues authorisations free; this document gives you the wording, to paste there, or to sign as a PDF and have the signature certified free on docs.gov.gr or at a citizen service centre (ΚΕΠ). It is DocMuse's own text, not the Greek state's form. It covers one precisely described act in Greece — collecting a document, filing an application, signing a contract, receiving a payment — and sets the limits of the authority, whether the agent may appoint a substitute or deal with themselves, and until when it is valid. Under the Greek Civil Code an authority takes the form of the act (art. 217): selling real estate, or any act made by notarial deed, needs a notarial power of attorney.

The request by which anyone asks a Greek public service, municipality or public-law body to inspect or receive copies of specific documents. Since 1 January 2025, art. 5 of the Greek Code of Administrative Procedure, as replaced by art. 59 of Law 5143/2024, gives this right to every person with no interest to show, and the service answers within 20 days. The request names documents rather than asking questions, because a manifestly vague request needs no answer.

Revoking a power of attorney in Germany: a letter to the agent asking for the power of attorney document back (§ 175 of the German Civil Code, BGB), which doubles as the notice to the bank, office or other body the power was shown or announced to — each receives a signed copy, because towards them the power stays in force until they are told it has ended (§§ 170–173 BGB). With the court route for declaring an unreturned document void (§ 176 BGB). In German; fill in, print, sign and deliver to each recipient with proof of receipt.

The written agreement without which an Austrian district court (Bezirksgericht) may not grant an uncontested divorce under § 55a EheG, the Austrian Marriage Act: custody and the children's main home, contact, child maintenance, maintenance between the spouses, the marital home, household contents, savings, debts and a balancing payment. No notarial deed is needed (§ 97 Abs 5 EheG). The spouses must have lived apart for at least six months and, with minor children, attended parental counselling. The courts have a free form for the application. Because of § 4 Abs 2 Z 1 SVG, print and sign by hand. In German.