Succession Lawyers Toowoomba

Preparing a Will is an important part of succession planning for your family. A Will enables you to properly set out how your wishes as to how your assets and liabilities should be managed in the event of your passing. It is estate planning at its core.

Our team are well versed in understanding and providing for the complexities of testamentary trusts, tax planning, real property, family law difficulties, or any business that you may have. We provide bespoke strategic advice to assist you with asset and wealth protection.

Whether your Estate might be large or small, we are able to assist you to properly prepare a Will to provide for your loved ones.

An Enduring Power of Attorney is an important document as it allows you to nominate who is to be in charge of financial and personal/health decisions in the event that you are unable to make your own decisions, or at another point that you nominate.

It is important that you obtain comprehensive advice legal advice about these documents as they can have serious impacts if not carefully considered. However, not having an Enduring Power of Attorney can also have significant consequences. It can assist you and your family to avoid financial difficulties and to streamline the decision making process.

Speak with one of our estate planning lawyers today to discuss this in more depth.

An Advanced Health Directive is a separate document which can be included in your succession planning. It is separate to an Enduring Power of Attorney (EPA). Where an EPA allows you to give the decision making power to a person or persons about health or personal matters; an Advanced Health Directive allows you to directly tell a medical professional through the correctly completed form about your health or personal wishes.

An Advanced Health Directive is a very complicated document and is full of pitfalls if it is not prepared with expertise. We recommend that you speak with an appropriately qualified solicitor to obtain legal advice about these documents.

Inevitably, loved ones will pass away. This difficult time does not need to be burdened by the day to day responsibility of the administration of an Estate. That is where our team come in. We are able to work with you as Executor, Administrator or as beneficiaries to finalise the administration of your friend or family member's estate.

We assist with the preparation and filing of any Application to the Supreme Court of Queensland for either Probate or a Grant of Letters of Administration, depending on the circumstances.

We also take care of calling in all of the assets, dealing with any liabilities of the estates, take care of property, a testamentary trust, assist in the wind up or continued operation of a business, and otherwise comply with the terms of a Will or the Succession Act generally.

Estate litigation mainly encompasses applications for further and better provision (also known as family provision claims) and applications to contest the validity of wills.

Other less common estate litigation can include applications regarding informal wills, clarification of the terms of a will, issues relating to the practical administration of an estate, removal of Executors, determining proper beneficiaries or administrators when someone passes away without a Will, among other things.

Basically, it encompasses all court applications regarding the law under the Succession Act.

It is important that you obtain legal advice from experienced solicitors who are accustomed to this area of law and are able to properly advise you and your family.

Our team are able to assist you with making an application, and are well versed at acting for the Estate and defending these types of applications.