Personal Law

Managing your personal affairs can be stressful. Whether it’s planning for the future, or dealing with an unexpected circumstance, having the advice of an empathic and experienced personal lawyer can ensure that you control the process.

We provide a range of tailored services to assist you in managing your affairs or those of your loved ones, including:

  • estate planning and administration
  • obtaining grants of probate and administration
  • drafting and contesting wills
  • drafting and registering powers of attorney
  • drafting and registering appointments of enduring guardianship
  • drafting end-of-life care provisions (Advanced Care Directives)

Wills

A legal will sets out who will be responsible for administering your estate and who the beneficiaries of your estate are eventually going to be. Having a will professionally drafted is the best way to ensure that your estate is taken care of in accordance with your intentions. Even with simple wills, it is important to ensure that the will reflects your wishes, and that all possibilities have been covered.

You should consider having a will drafted, or having your existing Will reviewed, whenever you:

  • enter into a new relationship
  • separate or divorce
  • have children
  • acquire or dispose of substantial assets

We have extensive experience advising clients on personally tailored inheritance arrangements and offer free and secure storage of all your legal documentation.

Powers of Attorney

A power of attorney gives authority to someone you trust to make certain financial decisions and sign certain documents on your behalf. They can be limited and specific, or extremely wide and discretionary, from making purchases to making financial investments on your behalf.

In NSW, a power of attorney needs to be executed in the presence of a prescribed witness, such as a solicitor or justice of the peace. We offer a complete service in reviewing and considering your situation to prepare, execute and register (if necessary) your power of attorney deed.

In addition, we offer free and secure storage of all your legal documentation.

Appointments of Enduring Guardianship

Thinking about your future welfare is important.  Anticipating your future care needs – not just your financial needs – can be managed by appointing someone you trust to make personal decisions on your behalf under an enduring guardianship appointment.

In NSW, an enduring guardian typically grants the power to make lifestyle decisions for you, such as the medical care you are to receive, where you are to live, and what kind of personal services you are to receive. You can make an appointment of enduring guardianship now that will only take effect after you lose the capacity to make your own decisions.

Having both a power of attorney and an enduring guardianship appointment professionally drafted for you is the best way to ensure that your future needs are met. We have extensive experience advising clients on personally tailored guardianship arrangements and offer free and secure storage of all your legal documentation.

Contested Wills

If you have been left without adequate provision by a deceased estate, you may be eligible to contest a will by making a family provision claim. There are different time limits and eligibility differs in each state depending on where the deceased died.

Our experience in family provision claims in NSW allows us to guide you through the process of applying for (or responding to) a contested Will to achieve the best possible outcome.