Types of Wills

• Simple
  • Husband / wife, single person
• Complex
• Mutual
• Special
  • Statutory Will for a Child / Person without Capacity
  • Assets outside Australia

Roles / items within the Will to consider

• Executors
  • Who to appoint?
  • Commission
• Guardians (of infant children)
• Gifts (personal items, legacies, bequests, devises, forgiving debts, annuities, charities)
• Beneficiaries
  • Residue of estate
  • Life interest
  • Right to reside in a property (eg, family home) for a certain time
  • Mentally or physically handicapped beneficiaries

Disposal of body, organ donation