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Estate Planning

Our Estate Planning department is able to advise clients on appropriate measures to take to ensure the continued financial security of dependents and other family members after death.
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  • Ensuring that your estate planning is done rigorously
  • Ensuring that your final wishes are complied with and estate duty is minimised.
  • The formation of a testamentary trust to ensure that assets left to minor beneficiaries are well managed
  • The role and power of trustees
  • Guidance regarding implications of insolvency of your chosen beneficiaries
  • The appointment of a guardian for your minor children
  • The appointment of an executor
  • The establishing an inter vivos trust
  • Reporting of a deceased estate to the Master of the High Court
  • Obtaining the Letter of Executorship or Letter of Authority
  • Gathering and managing all the necessary reporting documentation required to wind up the estate
  • Open and managing of the estate bank account
  • Placing of the required advertisements in the local newspaper and Government Gazette
  • Drawing up the Liquidation and Distribution account and obtaining the Masters’ approval
  • Calculation and arrangement of estate duty payments to SARS
  • Finalisation and the wrapping up of the deceased estate
  • Estate planning and fiduciary services
  • Assist in providing financial security to dependants and family
  • Advice on planning taxation and independent trusteeships
  • Trust fiduciary services
  • Drafting of related planning documentation and agreements
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