Wills & Estates

Peace of mind for you and your family

Our Wills & Estate Planning Lawyers assist with the planning and management of your assets to ensure that you and your family can cope with future risks, especially death & disability. We can also help you to protect your financial assets in the event of future claims arising from bankruptcy, family law claims and more.

In the event of death, we help to ensure that your estate is distributed as you intend through carefully thought out estate planning. Working together to establish your financial strategy with an estate plan will give you peace of mind.

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Wills

Our wills & estate planning team is highly experienced in the Will planning & preparation area. We are able to ensure that all vital requirements are fulfilled, and advise you on factors to consider, ensuring that upon your death, your estate is distributed in accordance with your wishes.

Power of Attorney & Enduring Guardianship

Establishing an Enduring Power of Attorney is easy with the assistance of one of our Estate Planning Lawyers. An enduring power of attorney gives the appointed lawyer control of your financial decisions, even if you were to lose mental capacity.

Estate Planning

Our Wills & Estate Planning Lawyers are involved in more than just putting a will in place. They are about securing your assets in the most tax effective way, to benefit and provide for those you care about, in the event of your incapacity or death, or even arising from bankruptcy or legal prosecution.

Estate Disputes

Estate disputes or contested estates arise for many reasons. A will may not exist, or it cannot be located. It may have been poorly drafted meaning that an intended beneficiary misses out on an inheritance or receives a much-reduced share.

Probate

When a will is drawn up, it should nominate an executor who will assume responsibility for distributing the estate in accordance with the terms of the will. Contact one of our Estate Planning Team for expert advice that will help streamline and simplify the administration of your probate responsibilities.

Trusts

A variety of trusts are available that serve different purposes, including the minimisation of tax and protection of assets. Clinch Long Woodbridge is experienced in advising on and establishing all types of trusts. These include family, unit, superannuation and testamentary discretionary trusts as an example.

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Our Wills & Estates Testimonials

As you know we were able to bring the case to a satisfactory conclusion yesterday. I can't quite believe it! For what we thought was going to be a fruitless exercise we now owe you a big thanks for all the work that went into turning it around.

Matthew, We want to thank you for your assistance in finalising David’s affairs and appreciate how clear you were with all the information and instructions.

John & Elizabeth Castleden

Wills & Estates Client

Matthew, thank you for all of your work in administering our late mother’s Estate. I have appreciated your courtesy and professionalism in the work carried out and it has been a relief to have much of our responsibility lifted from us in this way.

Bruce Derwent

Wills & Estates Client