Assets & Estates
We Know
there is little worse than realising that your hard-won assets, accumulated over the whole of your lifetime, are being fought over by those you love. Or watching formerly civilised people destroy long-standing relationships as they haggle over the way an estate has been structured. Or seeing somebody’s mother lose her house and get tucked away, out of sight and mind, because her assets have fallen under hostile control.
Although we cannot make decisions for you about where you want your assets to go or finish up after you are gone, we can assist you in getting them there, intact, and in some sort of order, according to your wishes.
We have extensive experience in working with individuals and their families in the accumulation, preservation and transfer of their wealth through creative and personalised planning. We provide strategic and informed advice on the options for providing for family inheritance, succession plans and preparedness for unforseen life events and even death. The broad area of Elder Law is growing in the western world as the affluent middle classes elect to plan their senior lifestyle and to make appropriate choices about family inheritance. Our lawyers are mature and sensitive to any client’s life situation. We will travel to meet you at a venue of your choice.
Our range of Life Management Services include:-
• Advance Health Care Directives
• Advocacy
• Advice
• Ageing & the Law
• Charitable & Planned Gifts
• Dispute Resolution
• Elder Law
• Estates
• Estate Planning
• Executors’ Duties
• Family Succession
• Family Trusts
• Funeral Directions
• Living Wills
• Mediation of family issues and disputes
• Powers of Attorney
• Powers of Guardianship
• Probate
• Retirement Villages
• Succession Planning
• Testamentary Trusts
• Trusts
• Wills