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When you want to give someone a limited power to do something specific on your behalf you may not want that power to continue for very long.
The ATO refuses to accept a tax return from an intestate deceased estate unless it is signed by the Administrator of the estate.
Unlike estates where anyone can inherit, not everyone can be considered a death benefit dependant in superannuation.
Many lawyers talk about “blended families” as if they are all pretty much the same. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth.
The three essential elements which give rise to a trust relationship.
Anything that promotes greater certainty with regard to estate planning is usually seen as a good thing.
Has the relationship with your attorney tarnished?
The new law seeks to stop non-estate assets making their way into those trusts in order to increase that income and access those marginal rates.
Being an estate planning lawyer means very often having to ask the hard questions – questions about their family that can make people a little uncomfortable.
For those wanting to ensure that a particular family member becomes the director of a family company when the current director passes, it’s a minefield.
The NSW Court of Appeal recently gave us their guidelines.
Online document provider, SuperCentral, continues offering its specialist estate planning course to the advice community with the next online course starting on 16 March.