In drafting a valid important document that is used in the probate process after your death i.e., called WILL, we at this Law Office ensure to give all the assets to the rightful heir. Without delay and with minimum expense we try to document and lend our clients their desired wishes and utilize their belongings as per the clients’ instructions or to the chosen beneficiaries.
With complete dedication and commitment to helping you through every step and assisting you with such legal services, we take steps after you decide on how your property will be divided after your death. If you want someone to pay the taxes of the estate after you unfortunately pass away, then we prepare certain wills. Additionally, we also draft wills that mention where you want to stay and live your last days and whom you want to appoint to take care of you.
Moreover, we also handle and settle wills that can give you a share of your relative’s estate or provide probate. If they have prepared a will and if they haven’t, then we help you to help you with the support of the estate trustee.
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We work on wills in terms of life interest, specific bequests, or as a last resort use the approach of distribution of value as residue of the estate. Our services ensure that sole ownership is protected and taken care of, on behalf of widows or widowers, and usually senior individuals. We help the owners to draft iron-clad wills to ensure that the property is transferred to individual/s who lay genuine claims against the estate.
We deliver legal services for joint tenants to ensure both legally married spouses could hold ownership of their home. We also ensure that if one of them is deceased, the remaining joint tenant/s continue to be the owner/s. We also ensure that the calculation of Estate Administration Tax is done smoothly when applicable. We minimize probate taxes when applicable and do not entertain fraud challenges from supposed beneficiaries.
We also handle properties for tenants-in-common as part of our estate law practice especially when a property is owned by two or more people, wherein the owners have percentage interest in ownership. We deal with the laws pursuant to rules set for the estate and determine the value of the property including real estate commission and expenses involved like income tax.
We manage ‘severing the joint tenancy’ issues taking care of consent, the property title disputes, the surviving members of a spousal relationship, and so on and so forth. We take clear, unequivocal action for the clause by registering the severance on title to property.
Our legal services for partition and sale of a property when one of the owners forces the partition and sale of a property in accordance with the ‘fair market value’ of the same. We ensure equitable rights and are fair to co-owners in deciding the dispute. We also take into consideration the terms of each sale including tax consequences.