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Rethinking traditional asset planning

Has the tide turned?

Trusts and Life planning Creating a Will
The Executor of Your Will

Having an executor of your will is like having a manager of your affairs (your estate) after your death. Your executor is named in your will; it is his or her role to carry out the terms of your will.

Trusts and Life planning Creating a Will
Getting your legal house in order in a “twilight relationship”

With lengthening life expectancies, better health in later years, and increasing divorce rates, it’s not surprising we’re seeing more “twilight relationships” blossom.

Relationship & Family Relationship property Trusts and Life planning Creating a Will
Challenging a Will – Pt 2: Don’t think you’ve been left your fair share?

In the last edition of Off the Record, we began exploring what can be a highly contentious issue: challenging a Will. As I outlined in Challenging a Will: Part 1, there are two main legal grounds on which someone can question a Will. The first, which we explored in Part 1, is that the Will’s legal validity is disputed.

Trusts and Life planning Creating a Will
Challenging a Will – Part 1

Death can bring more than mourning for those left behind. Too often it leads to animosity and arguing around the departed loved one’s Will – especially when its provisions come as a surprise.

Trusts and Life planning Creating a Will
Where there’s a Will, there’s a (far less stressful) way

If I could choose for every single adult one New Year’s resolution, very high on my list would be getting your affairs in order.

Trusts and Life planning Creating a Will
Who will speak for you in business if you can’t?

While most people are aware they need a Will, and might have given clear directions as to how they wish their business duties to be dealt with after they pass, many don’t give a second thought to how their business would fare if they were suddenly mentally incapacitated.

Business & Commercial Trusts and Life planning Creating a Will
Validating imperfect wills

For wills to be valid they must comply with a number of legal formalities; they must be in writing and there must be two witnesses who must attest to the will-maker signing the will in their presence.

Trusts and Life planning Creating a Will