by Autonomy First Lawyers | Apr 21, 2024 | Trusts and Estates
Why you may need to rethink … Are you a trustee, or the director of a company that acts as a trustee, of a discretionary trust? If you are, do you actually know what you are doing?! The Problem I’m the trustee of a discretionary trust, and that means I can do whatever...
by Autonomy First Lawyers | Apr 15, 2024 | Aged care
This is an update on the planned overhaul of the Commonwealth Aged Care Act. Submissions from stakeholders and the general public closed on 8 March 2024. More than a dozen submissions about the exposure draft of the new Act were received by the Department of Health...
by Autonomy First Lawyers | Feb 19, 2024 | Private Client Services
You may have heard the term ‘private client law firms’. Indeed, we consider Autonomy First to be a private client law firm. But what does that mean and how does it affect the way we practise law? What is a private client law firm? In summary, a private client law...
by Autonomy First Lawyers | Nov 7, 2023 | Legal, Succession, Succession Planning (After Death), Trusts and Estates, Wills
It is of great concern to many people that their wills may be challenged after their death by somebody that they have specifically chosen to exclude from the benefit of their largesse. Will that person be able to successfully take action against your estate, despite...
by Autonomy First Lawyers | Jul 4, 2023 | company law, Financial services, wealth management
This is a tragic and cautionary tale about how a deceased business owner’s family was left emotionally scarred and financially threatened by a failure to plan for business succession. In order to be of readable length, I replicate only the essential facts of this...
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