Estate Planning, Family Trusts and Asset Protection

Our Quay Law lawyers have a specialist trust focus and we regularly manage and administer trusts, including family trusts, investment trusts and trading and charitable trusts. As Auckland lawyers, we assist our clients to structure their asset ownership and to put their affairs in order. The focus is to best give effect to their wishes in preparation for any eventuality.

Auckland Lawyers for Estate Planning, Family Trusts and Asset Protection

For more information on Trust Law please contact a friendly Remuera Quay Law legal specialist.

Auckland lawyer Ian Mellett writes legal articles for numerous publications. Please click on the following link for a legal article on Family Trusts.

Auckland lawyer Ian Mellett of Quay law Radio Interview – Family Trusts (Source – July 2012 quay law firm youtube channel).

Types of Trusts and Trust Law

Our estate planning, trusts and asset protection legal specialists are able to explain all aspects of Trust Law and assist you with the following types of legal services:

  • Family Trusts
  • Charitable Trusts
  • Estate Planning
  • Asset Protection Plans and Structuring
  • Trust gifting
  • Trust Administration
  • Trustee Advice
  • Support for Trustees of Trusts
  • Matrimonial and De Facto Claims against your estate
  • Protection of personal assets from business initiatives
  • Rest home subsidies and Asset Testing

At Quay Law our Trust legal specialists and lawyers can assist you with the setting up and ongoing management of your Trust.
We specialize in the establishment of the Trust and thereafter are able to support the ongoing management of your Trust along with your Trustees. It is essential that your most important assets are protected during your lifetime and on your death.

When should you consider a trust?

People set up family trusts in New Zealand for a number of reasons that include:

  • Becoming a family
  • Buying a home
  • Starting a business
  • Protection against professional liability claims
  • Building and managing assets
  • Securing and safeguarding your assets against loss
  • Preparing for possible capital gains or death taxes
  • Planning for retirement and residential care
  • Protecting you, your partner, spouse or children against relationship or matrimonial claims of future partners
  • Estate Planning
  • Providing for and protecting future generations

Family Trust Lawyer Auckland and New Zealand.

Setting up a family trust is the best way to stay financially protected in the long term. One needs to make sure that they set it up correctly and administer it correctly.

There are different types of trusts, and they all have different purposes. One use is to protect assets from creditors or other legal claims that have been filed.

Our family trust lawyers have been practicing for years and are experienced in New Zealand Trust Law. In your first meeting our legal professionals will provides guidance to help you with your decision and understand how this legal entity will work for you.

We want to make sure everything goes smoothly and keep you protected. This is why we treat you with the utmost care and show you exactly how trust law works when it comes to tax liability, asset protection, and more. This way, you know your family is looked after.

In preparation for this meeting, write down anything you want to collectively discuss or achieve. We offer out professional legal services to Kiwis across New Zealand. We are here to support you and your business.

Quay Law is a law firm in New Zealand. We offer specialist services to Auckland and the wider New Zealand community, as well as private and business owners. Life sometimes offers us unexpected situations. Relationships end, creditors or debt collectors may want to take away some of your assets, inheritance may need to be protected for current and / or future generations. To get more information on the benefits of establishing a trust with our Trust Lawyer Auckland, just make an enquiry. We are also able to review existing Family Trust and related legal documents.

Recent News

Our legal tips are provided by the Auckland lawyers and conveyancing specialists at Quay Law (New Zealand). These articles cover a range of legal topics and news worthy articles.

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We are lawyers in Auckland, who provide practical legal services and conveyancing to a diverse range of New Zealand and overseas client needs. Centrally located in Remuera, Auckland, we look forward to working with you.

Our Legal Services

Our Auckland lawyers provide practical legal services for a diverse range of client needs.

CONVEYANCING (RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL)

Our property lawyers understand that property refinancing and property transfer or conveyancing transactions are diverse and can range from the sale or purchase of a residential house or apartment to something more complex. Transactions may focus on any property market be it retail, office, industrial, retirement villages, residential or rural.

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REFINANCE, DEBT RESTRUCTURING OR CONSOLIDATION

Loan Refinancing may refer to the replacement of an existing debt obligation with a debt obligation under different terms.

If the replacement of debt occurs under financial distress, refinancing might be referred to as debt restructuring or debt consolidation.

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WILLS AND ESTATE ADMINISTRATION

Everyone over the age of 18 years should have a will.  This will ensure that your assets will be bequeathed to those persons or entities whom you wish to benefit from your estate. We are able to manage the administration of your assets on death and provide advice to estate executors on any legalities that may arise.

We also provide the following ancillary services

  • Enduring Powers of Attorney
  • Powers of Attorney and Deed of Delegation
  • Matrimonial and De Facto Claims against your estate

Call us now for wills and estate administration

ESTATE PLANNING, TRUSTS AND ASSET PROTECTION

We specialize in the establishment of the Trust and thereafter are able to support the ongoing management of your Trust along with your Trustees.  It is essential that your most important assets are protected during your lifetime and on your death.

 Please contact us for family trusts

TAXATION

Types of taxation related services include but are not limited to

  • Investment Properties
  • Income structuring
  • Income Splitting for Family
  • Pre immigration planning.

Please contact us for Tax Lawyers

RELATIONSHIP PROPERTY

The drafting of a relationship property agreement requires skill, diplomacy and a good understanding of your requirements to ensure that the desired outcomes are achieved should a separation occur. We are able to assist with setting up Relationship Property Agreements and Separation Agreements.

 Please contact us for Relationship Property Agreement
COMMERCIAL | BUSINESS LAW

Types of products and services we provide:

  • Leasing
  • Business Sales and Purchases
  • Business Refinancing
  • Company Formation
  • General Security Agreements
  • Debt Collection
  • Partnerships
  • Shareholders Agreements
  • Small Business Advice
  • Business and Marketing Plans
  • Strategic and Marketing Advice
  • Guarantees
  • Terms of trade
  • Financing
  • Franchising
  • Joint Ventures
  • Consumer protection

Please contact us for Commercial lawyers

 
FRANCHISING

Whether you are a franchisee or franchiser, large and small, we are able to assist you in setting up franchises, entering/buying a franchise, writing and reviewing franchise documentation and expanding franchises, in a personalised, professional and efficient manner.

Please contact us for Franchise agreements

IMMIGRATION

Our lawyers in Auckland can assist you with:

  • Providing general immigration advice.
  • Attending to you visitor, work or residency visa / permit applications.

Please contact us for NZ Immigration

 We can help you with:Rules of the Body Corporate
Management of the Common Property
Establishment of the Board of Trustees (the committee)
Regulations governing the Board of Trustees
Provide insight and objective advice on Body Corporate matters
Please contact us for Auckland Body Corporate Lawyer
SOCIAL MEDIA LAW

Social media includes web-based and mobile technologies used to turn communication into interactive dialogue. Social media is media for social interaction as a super-set beyond social communication. Enabled by ubiquitously accessible and scalable communication techniques, social media has substantially changed the way organizations, communities, and individuals communicate. This has in turn had an impact on the law.

Please contact us at Quay Law Remuera for Social Media Law

CONVEYANCING, FAMILY TRUSTS AND GENERAL ADVICE

Our lawyers based in Remuera are also able to provide advice on general New Zealand legal matters.

If you require expertise beyond our practice, we are able to arrange this necessary expertise for you.

Referrals to Barristers are also provided.

Our Auckland solicitors also practice in Social Media Law.

For more information, please contact a lawyer at Quay Law Barrister and Solicitors.

Please contact us for General legal requirements

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― Joseph Ratzinger
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