Wills and Lifetime PlanningWA
This thorough legal publication allows practitioners to confidently advise clients in matters of wills, powers of attorney, guardianship, and advance health directives in WA.
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Overview
This thorough legal publication allows practitioners to confidently advise clients in matters of wills, powers of attorney, guardianship, and advance health directives in WA.
The guides follow comprehensive and methodical Retainer Instructions designed to assist with all matters, whether for a single client or complex families, including where the clients have an extensive or complicated asset portfolio.
Precedents include various ways to deal with blended families, superannuation death benefits and rights to occupy.
The commentary, which has been prepared by experienced legal practitioners, includes discussion of tax treatment for superannuation, use of testamentary trusts, family provision considerations, and dealing with assets in multiple jurisdictions.
Lawyers can take the worry and risk out of will drafting and maximise its value to their practice by using this excellent and easy-to-follow publication.
Precedents provided with this publication include:
- Wills for individual, spouses, and blended families, and that create testamentary discretionary trusts;
- Library of clauses, deeds, contracts, and codicils;
- Library of attestation clauses;
- Testamentary capacity checklist;
- Powers of attorney, enduring power of guardianship, and advance health directives;
- Suite of client letters at different stages of the process.
Ready To Use Resources
Choose from ready-to-use legal documents within this Publication.
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- ALERTS - Nil“”
- Full Commentary - Wills (WA)“null”
- Reference materials
- Overview“The law relating to Wills in Western Australia is covered by the Wills Act 1970. A will is a document containing a person’s instructions on how their property and assets are distributed after death. Failure to make a will results in a statute determining the distribution of the deceased's assets.”
- Summary of the process“The usual steps in a will matter are:”
- A. Getting the matter underway
- B. Will considerations and other estate planning
- C. The will
- D. Execution
- E. Finalising the matter
- Comments and suggestions for By Lawyers“null”
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More than 45 legal professionals have contributed to By Lawyers' Australian publications, all helping to ensure content is updated regularly to reflect changes in legislation, practice and procedure.
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