Estate planning
• Protection of wealth through asset protection strategies
• Preparation of Wills – testamentary discretionary trusts, mutual Wills and simple Wills
• Superannuation and binding death benefit nominations
• Planning for legal incapacity before death through the preparation of Enduring Powers of Attorney and Advance Health Directives
• Business succession planning
Estate administration
• Involving the administration and finalisation of the estate of a deceased person
• Probate and Letters of Administration
• Identifying and settling debts and liabilities
• Identifying and collecting assets
• Transferring assets to beneficiaries rightly entitled
• Accounting and taxation matters
• Advising on the duties and responsibilities of executors and/or administrators
Leasing
• Retail, commercial and industrial properties (involving both landlord and tenant clients)
• Single use properties
• Offices
• Warehouses and factories
• Shopping centres
Business acquisitions and sales
• Small business
• Medium business
• Large scale national businesses
• Service stations
• Restaurants
• Service industries
Franchising
• Franchise acquisitions, sales, advice, national franchises
Business structuring and succession
• Partnership agreements
• Joint ventures
• Syndicates
• Shareholder agreements
• Unitholder agreements
• Buy/sell agreements
• License and agency agreements
Sales and acquisitions
• Residential (units, townhouses, vacant land and houses)
• Commercial (shopping centres and offices)
• Industrial (warehouses and factories)
Property development
• Residential developments
• Mixed use developments
• Commercial offices
• Retail shops
• Land subdivisions
Land resumption claims
Easements
Licencing agreements
Option agreements
Estate litigation
• Concerns over the validity of a Will
• Beneficiaries feeling aggrieved by the terms of the Will by either not being provided for at all or not being provided for adequately
• Promises and arrangements made by a deceased person during their lifetime not being fulfilled
• Will construction and Will interpretation matters
• Superannuation claims and disputes
• Mediation and dispute resolution
QCAT matters
• Enduring Powers of Attorney disputes
• Guardianship and Tribunal hearing matters
• Mediation and dispute resolution
Property disputes & litigation
• Statutory trustee sales
• Lease disputes
• Breach of contract claims
• Body corporate disputes
• Mediation and dispute resolution
Business disputes & litigation
• Partnership disputes
• Franchise disputes
• Company and shareholder disputes
• Breach of contract claims
• Business litigation
• Insurance disputes
• Mediation and dispute resolution
For any enquires please contact us by using the form below or phone us directly on (07) 3392 2000
A| PO Box 1413 Coorparoo DC QLD 4151 T | (07) 3392 2000 // M | 0403 232 999 E | john@jds.com.au