Trusts are most commonly established by a deed. Those deeds contain the terms or rules that control how the trust can be used, and the rights and duties the various parties to the trust have or owe. In our experience, trust deeds are regularly misplaced and lost.
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Getting your estate documents together
Jonathan See of Townsends Business & Corporate Lawyers recently published an article on ‘Preparing for the Inevitable: Getting your estate documents together’. Below is an excerpt, the suggested list of documents clients can provide to Executor/s as part of their estate planning activities.
How to write for social media and beyond
In order to write high-performing online content that translates across an increasing number of devices, websites, browsers, blogs and social media you need to follow a few time-tested rules.
SuperCentral asks Trustees: Where is your trust deed?
Document provider, SuperCentral, gets calls from SMSF clients weekly asking where their trust deeds are stored. Peter Townsend from SuperCentral said that he sometimes feels like he is running a detective agency.
Loan agreements and security go together
All loans, including those from related parties, friends and families, should always be supported by a formal loan agreement and relevant security.
Townsends Lawyers now stamps NSW and VIC documents in-house
Townsends Lawyers can now stamp family, discretionary and unit trust deeds established in New South Wales and Victoria, along with a number of other eligible documents, on a complimentary basis when the documents or transactions are ordered through the firm. All you need to pay is the duty.