Legal Planning 
 

 

We thank Public Trust for helping to answer your questions about legal and planning issues.

Do you have a "legal planning" question? Simply email it to info@carers.net.nz or post to PO Box 133, Mangonui, Far North 0442.

The following information is not a substitute for professional advice in any particular circumstances. No liability will be accepted by Public Trust for any loss arising from any person relying on information contained in these documents.


Time to step back?

My husband and I are in our 50's and support our 30 year old son, who suffered a traumatic brain injury when he was 21.  We would value your advice about legal planning ...  (PDF 1.92MB)


Property Planning

Is it true that if the husband of a legally married couple needs to go into permanent care, his wife cannot sell the joint family home even if she is the legal Power of Attorney?  (PDF 1.54MB)


Plan for their sake

I am a budget advisor. I had a client dying of breast cancer (age 39) who had just taken her first dose or morphine. On visiting her and finding she was a solo Mum with three young children, I suggested that she make a Will ...  (PDF 352KB)

 

Balance of power

My de facto partner and I are both 64. We each have adult children from previous relationships, and have been together for more than 20 years. John has dementia and now lives in a special residential home ... (PDF 606KB)


What can we do?

My parents cared all of their lives for my sister, who has an intellectual disability and is now 55 years old. Dad died in the 1990s and Mum ad my sister have lived together in the family home until recently, when Mum had a stroke ...  (PDF 466KB)


Sibling tensions

My father is in his late 80's and has had a couple of mini strokes. My older bother and I have been caring for him for the past five years, since our mother passed away .... (PDF 438KB)


Welfare guardianship

Next of kin can't assume they will automatically become welfare guardians for an incapacitated family member.  (PDF 876KB)


Powers of attorney

Are powers of attorney, and enduring powers of attorney the same thing?  (PDF 219KB)


More power to the elderly!

Elder abuse is an issue that people of all ages are rightly very concerned about.  (PDF 372KB)


Getting your affairs in order

Christmas and the New Year are times when many of us pause and thank about what's important to us and our loved ones ... what the future may hold ... and what we need to do to get our affairs in order. 
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