ESTATE PLANNING
Family Trust and Wills
We can help you protect what matters to you the most, and help you achieve peace of mind about the future. We can assist you in structuring and managing private wealth assets, as well as developing effective inheritance and legacy planning strategies.
Working closely with accounting and tax advisers, we can provide seamless advice to safeguard your assets for your loved ones in the years to come.
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Introductory Guide to Family Trusts
This eBook will help you understand the fundamental concepts underlying family trusts, and teach you how to use this legal structure to protect those who matter to you the most.
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Recent Blog Posts
How do I use litigation to achieve my objectives?
If you have a dispute with another party which you can’t resolve privately, then your only option is to bring the matter before the Court for an independent Judge to decide the matter. However, litigation can be expensive, and even a simple case could take a couple of years to resolve. So is litigation still a practical method of resolving a dispute?
New Zealand Court Hierarchy
If you have a dispute you want to resolve in New Zealand, you need to obtain a formal order from the New Zealand Court system. Which Court you apply to will generally depend on the amount of money you wish to claim from another party.
Introduction to family trusts
Imagine if you want a friend to look after your young children if anything were to happen to you. In order to do so, you transfer the legal title of your assets to your friend. Therefore, your friend is now the legal owner of all of the assets. But what is stopping him from breaking his promise and doing what he wants with the assets that are now legally under his name?