If you want to ensure that your loved ones receive your assets, it is vital that you create an effective will through a lawyer whilst you are still alive and legally have the required mental capacity to do so. By making a will, you can save your family the stress and expense in what will undoubtedly be a difficult time for them if you have passed away. These are the main reasons why you should create a will or update your will:
1. If you get married or divorced.
2. If you enter or end a de facto relationship.
3. If you have a child or children.
4. If in an existing will, one or more of your executors die, refuse to act or
are unable to act because of age, ill health or any other reason.
5. If a beneficiary (someone who has been left something in the will) dies.
6. If you have left property to particular persons but it has subsequently been sold, given away or transferred the property into a trust or into a partnership.
An Advanced Care Directive is a legal document which enables you to appoint someone you trust to make medical, health and lifestyles decisions on your behalf when you are unable to do so. An Advanced Care Directive replaces previous documents such as an Enduring Power of Guardianship, Medical Power of Attorney and an Anticipatory Direction with a single Advance Care Directive Form. In this document, you need to select one or more people you trust to become your Substitute Decision-Maker(s). Your Substitute Decision Maker(s) will make decisions about your health and welfare in accordance with your wishes, which we will outline in your Advanced Care Directive, rather than impose their own views and values or subsequently, have a health professional making them for you.
An Advanced Care Directive is a legal document which enables you to appoint someone you trust to make medical, health and lifestyles decisions on your behalf when you are unable to do so. An Advanced Care Directive replaces previous documents such as an Enduring Power of Guardianship, Medical Power of Attorney and an Anticipatory Direction with a single Advance Care Directive Form. In this document, you need to select one or more people you trust to become your Substitute Decision-Makers. Your Substitute Decision Maker/s will make decisions about your health and welfare in accordance with your wishes, which we will outline in your Advanced Care Directive, rather than impose their own views and values or subsequently, having
another health professional making them for you.
