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Family Loans & Property Transfers

Want to give a helping hand to your children? Talk to us before giving out a loan, transferring or entering into a joint ownership of property with your children. We are acutely sensitive to parent-children relationships and know how to balance giving you peace of mind and security against the children’s wishes and needs. Help your children by formalising your assistance to them. The boundaries you create for your assistance will strengthen the bond between you and them over time.

Residential Care Retirement Villages

Contracts involving residential care and retirement villages are drafted to protect the owners of such facilities, leaving you exposed to unlimited risks. Beware of contractual pitfalls. Moving into a rest home or residential care facility can be an expensive undertaking. Have a chat with us on what you can negotiate on, what you will finally pay on entry, what you will get on exit, on how to prepare for risks that can and can’t be managed amongst various other issues. It is critical you get the right advice to minimise loss of retirement funds, maximise your lifestyle quality and choices.

Wills & Powers of Attorney

Have a close chat to us about the things that are important to your family and how to ensure your hard earned property and interests are protected for your loved ones in the event of your death, incapacity or inability.

Learn how and when powers of guardianship can be invoked to protect a family member and preserve his or her assets when he or she has lost capacity to make decisions.

Relationships and Property

When a new partner and his or her children come into your life, property rights and interests may become complicated for you and your own children. Simple mechanisms and agreements can be put into place to ensure your property and interests go only to those you intend. Talk to us about the options available to you to enjoy your new relationship and extended family members whilst having peace of mind over protecting the needs of your own loved ones.

Estate Planning

Estate planning ensures your current assets, property interests and rights are protected and will pass on to those whom you want when you become incapacitated or pass away.

Elder Abuse

Are you concerned you or someone you love is being mistreated, bullied, intimidated by or living in fear of a family member or career?

Elder abuse can be present in many forms and most include neglecting the health and daily needs of the elder, depriving the elder of respect and treating them like a child, humiliating them, gaslighting, depriving them of their liberty to freely associate with others and abusing the finances of the elder for the abuser’s own self interests.