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Your estate plan is a series of legal documents that deal specifically with your wishes for what is to happen if you die or if you are alive but have lost the capacity to make medical and financial decisions, usually due to a health issue.

Unless you are a solicitor, it can be hard to know what everything means in your Will. Especially if you rely on an estate planning Will...

Writing your Will can feel overwhelming, even when you employ the hand-holding of a solicitor. However, in reality, you need to make only...

Sometimes super or life insurance proceeds are paid directly to one beneficiary, bypassing the estate and sometimes children enjoy...

Wills are important for two main reasons. First, your Will states who you want to receive your estate when you die. Even a basic Will...

When I'm asked to explain Wills I often use the following analogy. Imagine you're about to drive your family across Australia and you are...

Scenario 1: You do not leave specific major assets as gifts. If like most people you are leaving your estate in percentage shares and/or...

Step 1: Complete our online form as best you can. Your answers do not have to be your final answers. The online form is merely meant to...

The trustee of a testamentary trust (that has been created after your death by your testamentary trust Will) 'controls' the trust for the...