Wills and Lifetime PlanningSA
This detailed legal publication assists practitioners to prepare wills, powers of attorney and advance care directives for their clients in South Australia.
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Overview
This detailed legal publication assists practitioners to prepare wills, powers of attorney and advance care directives for their clients in South Australia.
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.
The publication includes specific guidance on appointing a substitute decision-maker.
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 and advance care 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 (SA)“null”
- Reference materials
- Overview“The law relating to wills in South Australia is covered by the Wills Act 1936. A will is a document containing a person’s instructions on distributing their property and assets after death. Failure to make a will results in the statutory distribution of the deceased’s assets.”
- A. Getting the matter underway
- B. Will preparations
- 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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