Elder Care Planning
We provide a wide range of services to enable you to feel confident that your needs and wishes will be taken care of. We can also reduce the likelihood of future disputes. We can provide comprehensive advice that enables you to carefully consider and properly document any arrangements with family members regarding your care, accommodation, assets or general finances.
Our team of elder care planning lawyers is led by partner Adrian Riccioni and is supported by Siew Goh.
Our team will:
- Listen and take the time to get to know you and your priorities
- Provide expert and compassionate advice, sensitive to the emotional aspects of dealing with estate planning issues
- Treat you and your family with respect
- Create tailor-made packages based on your circumstances
- Visit you or your loved ones at home or hospital if required
- Meet with you as many times as you need
- Work with you to overcome vision, hearing, language/communication or mobility issues that affect your ability to obtain and act on legal advice
- Provide you with a fixed fee cost estimate before commencing any work for you.
Our team will meet with you to undertake a comprehensive review of your Elder Care considering your needs, wishes and relationships.
Our expertise in ELDER LAw covers:
- The potential sale or transfer of your home
- Accommodation Agreements for Aged Care or Retirement Villages
- Refundable Aged Care Deposits (RADs)
- Estate Planning
- Enduring Powers of Attorney for Financial, Legal and Personal Matters
- Medical Treatment Decision Maker appointments
- Reverse Mortgages and Equity Release
- Family Agreements including carer's agreements, co-owner's agreements, loan agreements
- Deeds of family arrangements
- Inter vivos (during life) gifts
- VCAT applications for Family Disputes
- Potential challenges to the will (including Family Provision or Testator's Family Maintenance)
- Binding Financial Agreements for spouses (family law)
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