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
January 21, 2022 Why Setting Up a Family Trust Matters One way to ensure that your loved ones receive the benefits that you have earmarked for them after your death, is to establish a 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
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
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