October 14, 2021 Setting Up a Trust Provides More Certainty on the Distribution of Assets Post-Death If you have been following our earlier blog posts, the discussions on estate planning tools have been focused on Wills. There is another estate read more
October 14, 2021 Share Transmissions and Pre-emption Clauses Pre-emption clauses are typically used to exclude outsiders from the affairs of the company. However, such clauses, if not given due consideration at drafting read more
October 11, 2021 Common Difficulties When Dealing with Foreign Properties in Wills The guidance of an estate planner when a person is planning his Will is crucial if he owns overseas properties. There are a read more
October 11, 2021 Thoughts from Lee Chiwi, CEO of PreceptsGroup International In the Straits Times on 27 Mar 2020, one of the articles of a columnist’s headline read “No more denying the importance of having read more
September 21, 2021 Passing On Overseas Properties to Your Loved Ones As people in the region climbed the wealth spectrum in the last two to three decades, many purchased property assets overseas. For instance, it read more
September 12, 2021 5 Issues to Take Note When Addressing Overseas Assets in Your Will Over the course of your life, you may have acquired overseas assets for investment purposes, as a family holiday home, etc. You may wonder read more
September 12, 2021 Vagaries of Intestacy Laws and a Simple Solution In our previous article, we noted that when a person dying intestate, control over his assets is handed over to the courts. There is read more
September 5, 2021 Why Laypersons Should Not Be Executor/ Trustee “I did not receive one nickel of the money and yet my reputation was tarnished!”- the voice of a Toronto accountant who acted as read more
September 2, 2021 What Happens If You Die Without a Will When someone dies without a Will, he is said to have died intestate. When that happens, none of his loved ones has any say read more
