Wills and Estate planning including Enduring Powers of Attorney & Advance Health Directives. Testamentary Trusts and asset protection. Deciding who gets your assets and your Estate when you die and making sure your Will protects your wishes. Deciding who makes decisions for you when you can’t make them for yourself, like whether to sell your house and which medical treatments you should have.
Gone are the days of the white picket fence, the high school sweethearts together forever and the 2.4 kids. Nowadays families are more complicated and consequently, so is Estate planning. Most blended families that I meet have the same goals… “protect my kids and make sure they get my Estate”. Even though the most carefully …
When a person wishes to change an existing Will, there is often a temptation, rather than preparing a whole new Will, to simply amend the existing, most recent Will by a Codicil. However, unless the change to the existing Will is of the most minor nature and the Codicil is being prepared by a Lawyer …
It is a common misconception that when you die, your hard earned and treasured Superannuation savings contained in your Superannuation Members account form part of your Estate and will be distributed to the beneficiaries nominated in your Will. However, that is not necessarily so. In a nutshell, unless the Superannuation Fund prohibits it, you can …
