by Monique Mackie | Oct 21, 2024 | Blog, Personal asset planning, Trusts
Retaining your family trust could be important With the recent increase in the trustee tax rate to 39% and changes introduced by the new Trusts Act, some clients have questioned whether they still need a family trust. The answer is not a “one size fits all”...
by AlexanderDorrington | May 10, 2020 | Blog, Personal asset planning, Trusts
Enduring powers of attorney (EPAs) have very much become the poor relation when it comes to asset planning documents. They used to be relatively common back when they were a simple one-page document. EPAs were often thrown in to complete the “full set” when setting up...
by AlexanderDorrington | Apr 30, 2020 | Blog, Personal asset planning, Relationship Property, Trusts
Everyone should have a will. It’s really that simple. In fact, I would go further, everyone should have a well written one… At the time of writing this, we have entered Alert level 3, which is great for the country but doesn’t make much difference to me. I’m...
by AlexanderDorrington | Apr 21, 2020 | Blog, Personal asset planning, Trusts, Uncategorised
Have you run out of jobs to do around the house yet? How about tidying up the plans for your personal assets? I have been isolating at level 4 with my two teenagers, which is pretty great because they are my favourite two humans in the world. I’ve been lucky though...
by Jacki Jeanmonod | Apr 1, 2020 | Blog, Business Law, Relationship Property, Trusts
Busy people always have non-urgent jobs on their list. Jobs that are important, but not pressing. Usually, they get relegated to the bottom of the list. You’ll have them and some of them will be finalising legal things – shareholder agreements arrangements...
by Monique Mackie | Dec 15, 2019 | Relationship Property, Trusts
The trust landscape in New Zealand will change significantly from 30 January 2021 following the introduction of the Trusts Act 2019 (“the Act”). The intention of the Act The purposes of the Act include making the administration of trusts more transparent for...
