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25.01.2022 If you trust someone 100%, you should consider having an Enduring Power of Attorney - especially if you dont have a spouse. If you are in a coma who will make decisions for you? If you are 19 years old and are single, who can legally pay your bills? Message me - I can help you get sorted.

24.01.2022 Free event - find out about rights and responsibilities for Principals (the ones appointing someone) and attorneys (the ones appointed) pursuant to a power of attorney. Rockhampton Library, 20 June 2018 at 6pm. Bookings preferred. Phone the CQ Community Legal Centre on 1800 155 121 or email [email protected].

24.01.2022 Are one of your beneficiaries, executors or attorneys (in your power of attorney) in financial trouble? If they are bankrupt, they might not be able to be your attorney or executor. If one of your beneficiaries is bankrupt, your assets may go to the trustee in bankruptcy on your death instead of your intended beneficiary. Have your Wills and Powers of Attorney reviewed. www.mywillqld.com.au, 1300 411 341, [email protected]

24.01.2022 Estate planning includes your will, power of attorney, binding death benefit nominations, family trusts, testamentary trusts, self managed super funds - they are all inter-connected in life and in death.

23.01.2022 Marriage = invalid Will! Get your will updated now - www.mywillqld.com.au or phone 1300411341

21.01.2022 After having a win against the Public Trustee (as an executor of an estate) in the Brisbane District Court this week, I pass on this advice. If you know anyone who has the Public Trustee as their executor, know that the costs charged by the Public Trustee can, and should, be questioned and if not OK, challenged. Just because they are called the Public Trustee does not mean that the public must trust them without question. Absolutely question.

20.01.2022 18th birthday? Congratulations! Along with voting you can now also sign contracts and own property in your own name. Having a legal Will means that you can determine who gets what on your death and who does all the work if you die (your executor). Costs to family can be huge if you dont have a Will. The greatest gift you can leave your loved ones is to attend to your legal affairs - and get your Will completed. www.mywillqld.com.au

20.01.2022 Have your Will and estate planning attended to by a Qld Solicitor - but from your own home - at a time and on a day that suits you. Save on travel and time costs. Find out how the law applies to you and your very individual situation and circumstance. You are not a peg to fit into a pre-determined hole - you are you. You are the only one with your family and your property structure. We know our business - the law of Wills in Qld. You know yours. Let us help you to leave your family with less problems when you die. The greatest gift you can leave your family is to attend to your legal affairs - get your Will and Estate planning up to date with My Will Qld - www.mywillqld.com.au, phone 1300 411 341, email [email protected]

19.01.2022 Recent changes in the law (Succession Act Qld) mean that ending a relationship, if you are defactos or in a registered relationship in Queensland, impacts your Wills. Be sure that you know that you are protected. #defacto #registeredrelationship #will #succession #queensland. Call 1300 411 341, email [email protected], make an enquiry online at www.mywillqld.com.au The greatest gift you can leave your loved ones is to attend to your legal affairs - get your Will up to date.

18.01.2022 October 31 is in 1 week! Have you lodged your personal tax return yet? If you need a helping hand, give us a call! 4922 5856 October 31 is in 1 week! Have you lodged your personal tax return yet? If you need a helping hand, give us a call! 4922 5856

18.01.2022 18! Congratulations! Congratulations to everyone whose children have or are about to turn 18 and start their adult life. A great gift would be a Will! As soon as people turn 18, they should have a Will (and should update that Will every time something significant changes in their lives - babies, marriage, starting a business, divorce, death (not theirs obviously!!), buying property - the big stuff!). If you love your family and friends, you would never want them to have to go to Court just to be able to sort out bank accounts etc, should something awful happen. The greatest gift you can give is to have your Will sorted. www.mywillqld.com.au PH 1300 411 341

17.01.2022 I recently saw a Will where the only executor nominated was a Government agency. The many downsides to this include their costs for administering the estate, the fact that they dont know where documents are so the family still have to go through everything and IF you can get them to renounce (to save the estate thousands of dollars), you also need to go to Court to have an alternate executor appointed. I strongly recommend: 1. select an Executor who knows where your thing...s are (the Executors job is just that - a job - not a gift!) 2. ALWAYS appoint an alternate Executor in case your first Executor cannot do the job for any reason 3. If you want to appoint a solicitor or a Government agent, make sure you know what that means for your estate when you die. How much will they charge? Do their policies mean that they are not open to options such as obtaining probate? Contact My Will Qld for all of your Estate Planning, Wills and Powers of Attorney. 1300 411 341. www.mywillqld.com.au or email [email protected]

16.01.2022 When you die, do you want your family to have to go to Court just because you don't have a Will? Get your Will updated and completed. The greatest gift you can leave your family is to have your Will and EPOA in order. Contact Flora - www.mywillqld.com.au Ph 1300 411 341 email [email protected] or Send a Message on Facebook.

16.01.2022 If you die without a Will, it costs more for your family to apply for Administration than it does to do your Will! Get your Will done and save your family further pain. I have included some details below: If you die without a Will, your family cant do anything with your assets (bank accounts, car, motorbike, house) until they apply to the Supreme Court for Letters of Administration (without a Will). The cost just for filing the application is currently $659.70. The costs ...are revised annually, as are all Qld Government costs (and they only ever go up they never get cheaper!) Your family also has to advertise either in a Qld wide paper or a paper approved for the area of where you lived. They have to prepare documents or get a solicitor to prepare documents. It doesnt matter how much you own it could be very little and your family still have to incur these costs and go through processes. The Supreme Court website (http://www.courts.qld.gov.au//wills-a/applying-for-a-grant) states: Your costs may include: advertising fees court filing fees postage the fee for the original death certificate issued by the Registrar General payment for document preparation the solicitors fees (if you have engaged one). Advertising fees vary, so you should contact the relevant newspaper about its charges. So if you think about costs (and we all have to because we all have commitments and budgets), it is much wiser and much more economical to have your Will prepared and not die intestate. This is why I say The greatest gift you can leave your family is to attend to your Will. Contact me on 1300 411 341, email [email protected] or go online to www.mywillqld.com.au and submit an enquiry.

16.01.2022 Who do you do a Will for? You do it for the ones you love. You do it so that in their grief for your death, they dont have to go to Court. Get your Will updated and completed. The greatest gift you can leave your family is to have your Will and EPOA in order. Contact Flora - www.mywillqld.com.au Ph 1300 411 341 email [email protected] Send a Message on Facebook.

16.01.2022 Flora Wellington and Wayne Jones at ABC Capricornia radio studio this week doing a radio interview for Piano Forte tonight (Wednesday 20 June 2018) at 6pm at the Rockhampton Library in the Fitzroy Room. There is a film (of a play) that shows a real example of how elder abuse can happen. After the short film Wayne & I will be answering questions about Powers of Attorney. This session will be interesting for anyone who has been appointed as an attorney as well as people who have or are looking at appointing someone in their own power of attorney. Everyone is welcome.

14.01.2022 This is a great article on the LawTalk blog. Unfortunately elder abuse is a reality. Please share with your family and friends. https://medium.com//you-have-the-right-to-maintain-control

14.01.2022 Who signs a contract for you, if you are unable to? Do you trust someone 100%? Should you get an Enduring Power of Attorney? Call My Will Qld on 1300 411 341 or go to www.mywillqld.com.au to make an enquiry.

13.01.2022 Liability limited by a scheme approved under professional standards legislation.

13.01.2022 Employers - this is your friendly reminder to pay employee super on October 28. For more info visit www.ato.gov.au/superquickcheck

11.01.2022 Christmas is over. Children or grandchildren back at school. Phew! Now - time to update your Will. The greatest gift you can leave your family is to have your Will up to date. We offer convenience and flexibility so theres actually no reason for you not to just make the first step. www.mywillqld.com.au, 1300 411 341 or send an FB message.

10.01.2022 I am regularly amazed, dismayed and saddened by families following death. Please get legal advice on various aspects of your Will and leave your estate planning in good order. The greatest gift you can leave your loved ones is to have your affairs in order.

10.01.2022 Have you recently been married? Marriage = no will. Get your new will done. Plan for life, plan for death, do what you can while you can. The greatest gift you can leave your family is to have your will in order. Call me (Flora), message me, email me, enquire on my website www.mywillqld.com.au

09.01.2022 Is your daughter or son getting married? Did you know that marriages revokes their Will? If they have set their date, or if they are already married, we can help with their new Will. Contact us on 1300 411 341 or at www.mywillqld.com.au

09.01.2022 Cracked paintwork and wills? How are they related you ask? Ever since I started practice as a solicitor I have referred to painting. People always ask how much for a Will. I have always said that an estimate for a Will is the same as quoting for a house to be painted - you need to know how big the house is, if the old paint needs to be stripped back, what sort of paint do you want to be applied? If you pay for a cheap paint job, you will end up with cracks in the paintwo...rk. If you get the right person for your job, someone who wouldnt put their name to shoddy work, you will get a result that doesnt have cracks. Its the same with estate planning - I would never want to put my name to something that results in cracks in your estate planning (your death planning (wills etc) and life planning - EPOAs). Phone 1300 411 341, www.mywillqld.com.au, email to [email protected], message me here on FB See more

09.01.2022 A large percentage of Australians believe that filling out a will kit from their local news agency, or downloaded from the internet, will cover them when they ...pass away. Decades ago that might have been true. But in a modern complex technological world, it is not," said President Christine Smyth. Read more below.

07.01.2022 I recommend FoxLaw (Rockhampton) for conveyancing. Great team!

07.01.2022 When to start financial power in an enduring power of attorney? Step 1 - choose someone you trust 100%. Step 2 - choose 2 people if you want a double level of protection of appoint them to act jointly. Step 3 - know that when you appoint someone for your financial power, your power does not end. Step 4 - consider this - if you are going to trust someone when you can see pink elephants flying backwards around your room, you can trust them right now. www.mywillqld.com.au Ph 1300 411 341 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/MyWillQld

06.01.2022 Great information - and from the Department of Natural Resources in their titles manual: "Care of Original Will Original wills must be treated with extreme care. It is essential that no marks or holes are made in an original will. No pencil notes should be made on an original will, nor should any ‘post it’ note stickers be attached to an original will, nor should any pins or staples be added to or removed from an original will. An original will should not be stapled to the application. The reason for this degree of care is that any attachment to a will, or any evidence of an attachment having been made to a will, may raise the presumption that a further testamentary document made by the testator had been attached by or at the direction of the testator, thereby altering the terms of the will."

05.01.2022 Free information session about powers of attorney at the Rockhampton Library on 20 June 2018.

05.01.2022 What do you think the hardest thing is about a Will?

04.01.2022 Engaged? Congratulations! Your Will is revoked on your marriage. Contact us before your big day and we will help you get organised and ready. 1300 411 341, [email protected], www.mywillqld.com.au

02.01.2022 4 weeks to get an original Will from Public Trust Qld. If you have had your Will done for "free" (and it is never free - there is ALWAYS some payment from someone, whether that be money, poor service, long delays, frustration etc - free is NOT free) and if your original Will is with the Qld Public Trustee (Public Trust Qld) this is just the time frame to obtain the original Will to be able to start the work for the estate! If your original will is with the Public Trust, ask your executors (if you have been smart enough not to appoint the Public Trust Qld) whether having your Will with Public Trust creates yet another job, delay and problem for them. If it does, I strongly recommend that you get your original Will from Public Trust Qld.

02.01.2022 Merry Christmas to all! If you are looking for that special gift, the gift of a Will and an Enduring Power of Attorney is not only practical, it is the greatest gift you can leave your loved ones - being organised so that in their time of loss and pain, they dont have to also go to Court to get your bank account closed and distributed. Please be safe on the roads everyone, be safe at home and be safe, patient and breath while shopping :)

02.01.2022 This is good info from ASIC! "Importance of sole company directors or shareholders having a will Why do directors need a will? Difficulties can arise when an ordinary person dies without leaving a will. Their estate cannot be quickly wrapped up and dependants (widows, children, etc) can be left waiting lengthy periods before either the State or Territory Public Trustee steps in to manage the estate, or letters of administration are granted by the Court to someone else to ad...Continue reading

01.01.2022 Did your young people turn 18 this year? Do they have a Will? Do they have a Power of Attorney? Without a Will the court costs are huge just to get authority to close a bank account. Without a Power of Attorney who has authority to speak with the doctor for them? They are adults now and unless they have a spouse (for the statutory power of attorney) they wont have anyone to talk for them. Call Flora on 1300 411 341, email me, PM me or enquire on the website www.mywillqld.com.au

01.01.2022 It doesnt matter who you get to do your Will. There are a few things that really do matter. The person asking questions should ask you questions about logistics and what happens in reality - eg whether your executors can work together. That is really important!! www.mywillqld.com.au, 1300 411 341