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PRIVATE CLIENTS
We provide high-quality legal services of a personal and private nature to individuals, family groups and family businesses. Our private client lawyers are trusted advisers.
Mangioni Biggs + Co provides advice to high net worth individuals and family groups, directors and senior executives of major companies on their personal matters, parents assisting their children to purchase property or to make investments, and business contacts and their families, including clients referred by other professional service providers.
Our private clients services include:
MATTERS OF PERSONAL SIGNIFICANCE
While private clients matters are commonly only small in value, they usually take on much more significant personal value, and these matters therefore need to be treated with the same high level of competence as we deal with all of our larger commercial matters. Our private clients lawyers understand and respect this, and consistently ensure that all of our private clients matters are handled accordingly.
We act on all personal and private matters, including:
- Estate planning
- Preparation and probate of wills and other testamentary dispositions
- Family Provisions Act advice
- Intestate estates (where there is no will)
- Estate disputes
- Local Council issues
- Personal and family financial arrangements
- Family trusts (including both inter vivos and testamentary trusts)
- Powers of attorney (including enduring powers of attorney) and guardianship documents
- Residential conveyancing
- Residential leasing
- Rural landholdings
- Neighbour disputes
- Nursing home contract
CONVEYANCING SERVICES
Many of our private clients come to us when buying or selling an apartment or a house.
Buying or selling property can be a complex, confusing and stressful process, and there are many legal and practical pitfalls to consider. Our lawyers help to smooth out the complexities, to side-step the problems, and to make it as simple as possible.
Ensuring that the right things (such as financing and mortgage documentation) are done at the right times is crucial for clients to complete their sale or purchase on time, and without unnecessary financing costs. Conveyancing is detailed work and our private clients lawyers pride themselves on doing that work right the first time.
Mangioni Biggs + Co understand the personal stress that buying and selling property can place on the parties involved. We are in constant communication with our clients at every stage, keeping them updated on how things are progressing, and what happens next. We are there to support them, as each conveyance involves a fully qualified solicitor, supported by a highly-experienced licensed conveyancer.
Our team has a reputation for being trustworthy, ruthlessly efficient and providing great value for money.
WILLS + POWERS OF ATTORNEY
It’s always a good idea to have a will. But, that’s particularly so when a person gets married, or buys property. A will is a legally recognised document that ensures that that a person’s assets are distributed as they wish after they die. DIY (do-it-yourself) is not the best approach when it comes to wills. There are laws that dictate the requirements for a valid will, and how assets must be distributed in the absence of a valid will, or if a will is unclear. An unclear will could mean that a person’s assets are not distributed as they intend, and could place pressure on their surviving family members. Our lawyers comprise a team of trusted advisers, who are highly-experienced in preparing both standard and complex wills, and in anticipating and dealing with the legal issues that may arise.
A power of attorney is also a good idea for most people. It’s a legally binding document by which a person appoints someone of their choice to take care of their financial affairs, and if thought desirable also their medical affairs, should they not be able to make decisions themselves. A power of attorney can be as narrow or as extensive as a client wishes, and is particularly recommended if a person is elderly, has substantial assets or is travelling. Our lawyers can assist with general powers of attorney, as well as enduring powers of attorney (that survive mental incapacity).
ADVICE TO FAMILY GROUPS
Our team can draw on decades of experience so as to understand the legal, commercial and personal needs of individuals and families in a wide range of circumstances in which their services are required, whether that be in relation to designing and implementing effective family business succession plans, assisting with balancing inter vivos gifts to children against their potential testamentary entitlements, ensuring that fundamental estate planning documentation is properly in place mindful of the potential challenges that might arise after death, formulating and executing appropriate strategies to ensure that someone’s stated testamentary wishes are fulfilled or helping to navigate the legal issues arising after the passing of a loved one.