Legal Services

Selling and buying all types of property including houses, vacant land, strata title, rural properties, Old System title (including limited and qualified title) and company title.
Acting for both landlords and tenants in relation to commercial, retail and agricultural leases.
Easements, restrictive covenants and rights of way.
Subdivisions and title creation.
Mortgages and charges.
Possessory title.
Advising in relation to commercial and industrial land.
Acquiring interests in Retirement Villages, including village contracts loan/lease, strata and licence arrangements.
Residential Aged Care facility agreements, leases and licences.

Drafting Wills ranging from simple arrangements to complex tax-efficient Wills including asset protection measures, testamentary trusts and provisions protecting vulnerable beneficiaries.
Enduring Powers of Attorney.
Appointments of Enduring Guardianship.
Advance Care Directives and Living Wills.
Establishing and updating self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs).
Binding Death Benefit Nominations and Superannuation Wills.
Family Trusts and Unit Trusts.
Business succession planning.
Amending and updating trust documentation including changes in trusteeship.
Amending and updating company constitutions.
Advising upon potential estate disputes and claims for family provision.

Taking executors and beneficiaries through the steps required to administer a deceased estate.
Advising upon the need for a Grant of Probate.
Drafting and lodging applications for Letters of Administration where the deceased did not leave a valid Will and their estate passes in accordance with the rules of intestacy.
Liaising with solicitors and accountants from other jurisdictions in administering the deceased’s worldwide assets.
Arranging for foreign Grants to be resealed in the NSW Supreme Court and administering such assets for overseas executors.
Advising executors and eligible persons about claims for family provision pursuant to the Succession Act 2006.
Acting for executors in defending and resolving claims made against the estate by eligible persons including spouses and de facto partners, former spouses and partners, adult children, grandchildren dependants and other eligible persons.
Advising potential claimants of their rights in relation to a claim for family provision and acting for them throughout the claim process.
Drafting and finalising documentation (including Deeds of Family Arrangement) recording settlement reached between the estate and a claimant.
Advising upon the validity and interpretation of Wills including consideration of issues including testamentary capacity and undue influence.
Assisting dependants with superannuation death benefit claims.

Selling and buying a business.
Shareholder Agreements.
Mortgages, financing arrangements and loan and security documentation.
Lease transactions.
Security interests (including what used to be known as fixed and floating charges).
Family and unit trust structures including updating trust deeds and change of trusteeship.
Partnership agreements.
Business succession planning.
Setting-up self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF).
Incorporation of companies including ‘special purpose’ companies.