Careful and considered estate planning ensures that you are prepared for the future. It sets out parameters for transferring the ownership and control of your hard-earned assets when the inevitable happens. Sophisticated and effective estate planning will ensure the assets and relationships you worked so hard to build during your life time are preserved for the future.
HopgoodGanim's Estate Planning and Administration practice provides realistic and comprehensive legal advice to help you establish the right estate planning documentation for the smooth transition of your assets.
Our estate specialists can work with you and your financial advisers to establish the initial estate planning strategy, but we also offer necessary dispute resolution services in the event that family disagreements over the division of assets arise.
Areas of Expertise
- Estate planning
o Wills and Memoranda of Directions
o Superannuation death benefit nominations
o Enduring and General Powers of Attorney
o Corporate, trust and superannuation investigations and reviews
- Estate administration
o Routine and non-routine
o Grants of Administration in common form
- Estate litigation
o Family provision applications
o Grants of Administration in solemn form
o Construction applications
o Applications for and against personal representatives
o QCAT applications
