{mds} law provides a comprehensive asset protection and estate planning service for clients.
We work closely with businesses and individuals to ensure protection of their assets in the event of unforseen events or to enable an orderly and unconstested transfer of ownership from one generation to the next.
Asset protection measures need to be carefully considered and a plan customised to meet your particular needs. The consequences of not doing so can lead to quite difficult and costly legal problems later on.
Our team has the experience and expertise to advise you on how to plan for your future and how to get the best from a trust or other structures.
We advise on:
- Administration of trusts.
- Asset ownership structures.
- Duties of trustees.
- Enduring powers of attorney.
- Estate and trust administration.
- Estate planning and asset protection.
- Forgiveness of debt and gifting programmes.
- Formation and use of charitable and community trusts.
- Formation and use of family trusts.
- Implications of the use of trusts in corporate, family and succession structures.
- Income tax minimisation.
- Independent trustee services.
- Interpretation of trust deeds.
- Maximisation of government subsidies and other benefits.
- Memoranda of wishes.
- Opinions on legal issues relating to trusts.
- Preparation of trust deeds.
- Resettlement of assets into modern trust structures.
- Rest home subsidies.
- Rights of beneficiaries.
- The restructuring and transfer of assets to trusts.
- The role and duties of executors and trustees.
- The use of trusts and the Property (Relationships) Act 1976.
- Variations of trusts.
- Wills.
Please contact us for advice or further information about our services.