Wills & Estate Planning
Specialising in all aspects of wills and estate planning
Your estate plan, clearly explained
Protect your wishes and make things clearer for the people who matter to you. We prepare Wills, Enduring Powers of Attorney and Advance Health Directives tailored to your circumstances.
Before drafting, we consider your family, assets and existing arrangements, identify potential complexities, recommend the documents you need and confirm the preparation fees.
Document preparation fees
- Standard Will: $495 including GST. Complex Wills cost more; fees are confirmed before drafting.
- Enduring Power of Attorney: $275 including GST.
- Advance Health Directive: $275 including GST.
An initial lawyer consultation is required before drafting and charged separately from these document preparation fees. We advise whether an EPA, an AHD or both are appropriate for you.
Plan for future decisions
Your estate plan can also address decisions during your lifetime. These documents serve different purposes and can work together.
Enduring Power of Attorney
Choose someone you trust to make financial and/or personal decisions, including health matters, within the authority you give them. Personal and health powers apply if you lose capacity; financial powers can begin at the time you specify.
We help you consider who to appoint, the scope of their authority and when their powers should begin.
Advance Health Directive
Record your directions for future health care and medical treatment, for use when you cannot make those decisions yourself.
We help you understand the legal requirements, document your wishes clearly and explain the involvement of your doctor in completing the directive.
What should your Will cover?
Areas we recommend you consider in planning your Will include:
- Who will be responsible for administering your Estate?
- Who will be your beneficiaries (i.e. who will receive your property and other assets)?
- Would you like to be buried or cremated? Where?
- If your children are minors, who will look after them if you are not around?
- If your children are minors, who will manage your Estate until they are adults?
- Would you like to leave specific gifts, and to whom?
Keep your Will up to date
- Review your Will after a significant change, including:
- Changes to your family or your children reaching adulthood.
- The death of a beneficiary or family member.
- Changes to your assets or their ownership.
- An executor, trustee or guardian can no longer act.
- Separation, divorce or a new relationship.
Take the next step
Discuss your estate planning needs with our Newstead team. Secure storage of your original Will is included when we prepare it.