Jones Law personally liaises with clients at all times to ensure the sale or purchase of your home or investment property is completed in the most effective way helping you resolve issues with timely legal advice.

We particularly like assisting first home buyers into their first home.

We will explain the sale and purchase agreement to you, attend to title searches and check a land information memorandum or building report and advise you on any issues.

• Sale and purchase agreements
• Transfer of property (conveyancing)
• Mortgage of property
• Property management agreements between owners
• Refinancing a mortgage
• Relationship property agreement

We have set up a number of Trusts for clients. We have assisted in the transfer of assets to a Trust and always ensure these transactions are documented properly.

All this means a Trust will have a greater chance of remaining immune from any challenge.

The new Trusts Act 2019 applies to all Trusts and we have assisted clients to review Trusts in light of this legislation.

We have set up Trusts under the new Act or varied existing Trusts to ensure they comply with the Act.

Where appropriate we have wound up and terminated Trusts where they are no longer necessary or where issues due to compliance with the new Act outweigh the advantages of continuing with the Trust. We can provide information on request on Trusts and advise whether it is in a client’s best interests to set one up or not.

We liaise with a client’s accountant to ensure any Trust we set up is compliant and necessary from a tax perspective.

• Establish and review family trusts under the Trusts Act 2019
• Vary trusts where required
• Wind up and terminate trusts
• Work with the accountant for the Trust where needed

Please contact Peter Jones if you have any queries on this type of work.

• Prepare wills
• Review wills as family circumstances change
• Administer estates

We will act to ensure a client’s Will wishes are put into clear unambiguous documents.

Making a Will is one of the most important documents a client will sign. We will draft you a will to ensure your estate goes to who you wish it to go to. Devoid of a Will your estate could go to persons other than as you intended.

A Will maker needs to keep his/her will uptodate to account for life changes, for example a partner dies or you get married. We will help you achieve this.

Please contact Peter Jones if you have any queries on this type of work.

Anyone can become mentally incapable due to medical misadventure (for example a stroke) and needs to plan to manage such a calamity.

We can prepare enduring power of attorney documents where a client appoints a person as its attorney to act in the event of the client’s mental incapacity for property and personal care and welfare matters (2 separate documents). Failure to have such documents in place may require your caregiver or other person to apply to the Family Court to be appointed an attorney for such matters.

We will draft the documents and ensure the necessary check and balances are in place in these documents to ensure your attorney acts responsibly and in your best interests.

• Sale and purchase of business’s
• Commercial leasing
• Shareholder agreements
• Partnership agreements

We have considerable experience in leasing of commercial premises and know how best to approach a landlord to obtain its consent e.g. to an assignment of your lease on a business sale.

Company shareholders and directors may need an agreement to provide for how a company is to be managed. For example it could provide on the death of a shareholder, that its shares must first be offered for sale to the surviving shareholders and how the shares are to be valued and paid for. Also it could provide how to break a deadlock in the event of a dispute between shareholders. We can provide legal documentation to provide for the unique circumstances of your company.

Please contact Peter Jones if you have any queries on this type of work.