Costs, templates &

process for Special

Power of Attorney
(SPA)
By SHEG's NLRC Campaign against Salary Deductions & Illegal Fee · Updated about 2 years ago
This album describes the process and cost of making the Special Power of Attorney in Philippines and overseas
locations for the purpose of NLRC claim. There are SPA templates in this album.

Costs of making Special Power of Attorney (SPA)

A. Making the Special Power of Attorney in Philippines
Cost involves two components:

A1. Professional fee of an attorney for making SPA

Attorney will type and print the special power of attorney document for you, which is usually 1 or 2 page long
document with legal language. SPA documents contains your details with name and ID info, purpose of the power
of attorney, person who can act on your behalf, etc. This fee may cost PHP1000 to PHP1500. You can avoid this
cost if you download the power of attorney document from internet, type it yourself at internet cafe, print it out.

A2. Notorizing the SPA document.

Some attorneys have additional qualification as "Notary Public" . Got o any notary public and then ask them to
notarize the SPA document you have already made. Notarizing involves the simple act of putting the stamp by the
notary public on your SPA document. Some of them charge between PHP100 to PHPP500 for putting this stamp,
which takes few seconds to do. Go to the local court, just ask around for the cheapest Notary Public with the already
printed SPA document in your hand.

Important Tip:
The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) in each city has standard schedule of fee published on their website,
which you can google. For example, the Integrated Bar of the Philippines of Cebu city standard fee for preparing the
SPA document (item-A1 above) and notorizing it (item A2) cost a total of PHP1000, these fees are clearly
mentioned in item "II. Notorial Fee, point 3" of their
website http://lepitenbojos.com/old/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98%3Aibp-cebu-city-and-
province-schedule-of-fees&catid=35. You can usually find a cheaper Notary Public, e.g. PHP100 to stamp it if you
prepare the SPA yourself and go to the court to find cheaper notary to stamp the document for you.

B. Making Special Power of Attorney at overseas Philippines embassies

If you live overseas, then you must make the power of attorney at Philippines embassy. Cost is PHP1500 or
equivalent to be paid in cash. You can have it done on the spot if you go in the morning, sometimes embassy may
ask you to come next day to collect it.

TEMPLATES FOR the POWER OF ATTORNEY

You can obtain the template for the power of attorney from many sources i.e.

1. SNT - SHEG NLRC TIPS group and SHEG's NLRc campaign page on facebook have better templates for the
NLRC claim
 SHEG's NLRC Page (check the albums for the template) https://www.facebook.com/SHEG.NLRC

SNT group https://www.facebook.com/groups/SHEG.NLRC.TIPS, you can post on the wall and ask other member
for help after typing to review your typed SPA document before you notarize it.

2. Download the generic SPA template from the Philippines embassy website in your overseas country (Philipppines
Embassy in Singappore template http://www.philippine-embassy.org.sg/wp-content/uploads/new_spa.pdf)

3. Google the SPA templates, there are many templates for various purposes. There is not standard template notified
by the government or NLRC.