- Wills – These set out your wishes for how your affairs are to be managed after you have passed away;
- Living Wills - Makes known your wishes regarding life prolonging medical treatments;
- Enduring Powers of Attorney - Gives someone the power to act for you if you lose the capacity to make decisions yourself, and appointment of property managers and welfare guardians, for persons who have lost capacity to make decisions;
- Estate Planning, including Trusts and gifting programmes;
- Rest Home entry documents;
- Rest Home Subsidies – support with completing WINZ forms;
- Charitable donations/ bequests;
- Funeral and Estate Fee Trusts – These trusts allow you to prepay your funeral and estate administration fees in advance, reducing your assets for the purposes of rest home subsidies;
- Inter Vivos Administration of affairs – Looking after your property affairs during your lifetime, which may include, payment of outgoings for property, diary system for important dates (i.e. rates, insurance, birthdays of certain people to be acknowledged).
We work in partnership with clients and their families with a supportive and positive approach to ageing. Preston Russell Law aims to provide you with legal support and protection now, and for the future.
