Estate Planning articles

The main objective of a trust is to acquire protection for personal or business assets. A properly drawn up trust will protect individuals and business

The circumstances when the serving trustees have the right to appoint additional trustees in terms of a trust deed. The appointment of additional trustees in

Reluctance to accept our mortality probably explains the high rate of intestate deaths in South Africa, many of which result in untold inconvenience and hardship

Is it better to purchase property in a company or a trust, or in your personal name? This depends on your individual financial planning needs

This is a groundbreaking judgment which extends the right to inherit from a deceased husband’s estate to women in Muslim marriages where there is more

A spouse of a “marriage” by Hindu rites enjoys recognition by South African law for inheritance purposes. The Govenders were married to each other on

Part of our offering is to ensure that your Last Will and Testament is drawn up correctly and that all aspects of your affairs have

On 15 July 2009 the Constitutional Court found that widows of polygamous Muslim marriages have the right to claim or inherit from estates of hubands

The SCA has ruled that a suicide note was intended to be an amendment of a man’s will Section 2(3) of the Wills Act 7