Our team of expert lawyers understand how critical it is that a client requires excellent advice when making decisions on estate planning - how to move his or her assets to the next generation cost and tax effectively; how to create inter vivos and testamentary trusts; how to look after the special needs child and how to make sure the right charity receives the right amount.

Working together we will provide the right solution for you to plan for the transfer of control from one generation to another in family businesses and the issues that need to be considered in making those decisions. We appreciate and respect the difficulties and problems that arise when a loved one has died and a client has been asked to probate the Will or cope with the problems of intestacy.

We provide legal services for Planning, Preparing Documents, and Advice:

• Estate planning
• Probate and income tax issues
• Preparing and probating wills
• Creating family and other trusts
• Obtaining the appointment of a committee
• Preparing powers of attorney
• Preparing complex and simple representation agreements
• Planning and advice for intestacies

Litigation

• Challenging the Will and gifts or distributions in the Will in variation applications to Supreme Court
• Upholding the Will for the Executor of the estate
• Applying to the Supreme Court to have a Committee appointed for the person who cannot look after themselves or their estate and assets, or challenging the need for an appointment
• Making and defending claims against the Will or persons entitled to participate in the estate
• Applying to Supreme Court to remove an Executor of a Will and Trustee of an Estate, to appoint another in their place
• We provide advice and assistance to our clients in a professional and supportive manner