August 16, 2023 Assessing The Value Of A Corporate Executor In Estate Administration In one of our recent experiences administering an estate, our Precepts Trust colleagues, Mr Kuan Choon and Ms Soo Luan, spent days going through 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 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
August 27, 2021 Prudence in Administering an Estate A Will often stipulates the naming of an executor, be it sole executor, substitute executor, or even joint executor. Executors have a legal duty read more
August 20, 2021 Succession of Digital Assets – Difficulties Dealing with Cryptocurrencies In part 2 of this Case Study, we looked at how executors go about handling digital assets of financial value. We noted that it read more
August 20, 2021 A Closer Look at a Standby Trust Case A Standby Trust is a passive Trust that is on standby/ in dormant mode, only activated when trigger events (mental incapacity or death) occur. read more
August 11, 2021 Estate Planning for Divorcees (part 1) Lisa Gay (Business Executive, Marketing Department, Precepts) caught up with Ms Lim Kim Hong and Hwee Heng (Head of Marketing Department, Precepts) to understand read more
August 5, 2021 Lawyers, Precepts And Our Roles After working in this field for so many years, one of the most frequent questions that had been posed to me is whether lawyers read more
July 30, 2021 Dealing with Digital Legacies When You Are Alive Digital assets can be difficult to track by those entrusted with the responsibility of having to deal with them in the event of death. read more