With record-breaking real estate prices in and around the Upper Clutha and wider Queenstown Lakes District, it’s not surprising so many property owners have swarmed to peer-to-peer accommodation platforms, like Airbnb, to reap the rewards.
If you have a family trust set up a number of years ago, it’s good practice to review it to ensure it is still ‘fit for purpose’. Leading on from that is the question that is often asked of us, “Should I bring my trust to an end?”
Julia Hunt, our trainee Legal Executive, has just received her results for her final New Zealand Diploma in Legal Executive Studies exams - straight A-plusses, no less.
Somebody pinch me. Seriously, November … already? Sure enough, we’re careering headlong into that time of to-do lists rivalling Santa’s and accelerators pressed hard to the floor at work and home.
While most people are aware they need a Will, and might have given clear directions as to how they wish their business duties to be dealt with after they pass, many don’t give a second thought to how their business would fare if they were suddenly mentally incapacitated.
