Succession and Estate Law at Nitre Law

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 At Nitre Law, our team can work to affect your  family legacy, and business continuity with precision and discretion. Serving high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and business owners across Australia, we craft tailored succession strategies with an aim to avoids disputes, and preserve control, whether your assets span Sydney boardrooms, offshore trusts, or multi-jurisdictional holdings.

1. Estate Planning We design holistic estate plans integrating wills, testamentary trusts, and binding death benefit nominations. Our approach minimises risks to your testimentary intentions and work with a team to ensure your structure is tailored to comply with your tax and wealth creation plan and the family dynamics.
2. Will Drafting and Review We draft clear, wills and review existing ones for compliance with the the relevant legislation. Codicils and digital asset provisions keep your will current amid life changes, law reforms, or ATO rulings.
3. Trust Creation and Management From family trusts to asset protection vehicles, we establish structures that prioritise asset protections and protects vulnerable beneficiaries, which can bypass probate. Special Disability Trusts can preserve Centrelink eligibility while securing lifelong support.
4. Probate and Estate Administration We manage the full probate process through the Supreme Court—filings, asset valuation, debt settlement, and distribution—with executor guidance that reduces delays and disputes. Where possible, we structure estates to avoid probate entirely via joint tenancy or trust vesting.
5. Asset Protection We shield wealth using discretionary trusts, corporate trustees, and SMSF structuring. Business owners benefit from hybrid trusts and unit-holder agreements that ring-fence personal assets from commercial liability.
6. Business Succession Planning We can draft cross-option buy-sell agreements funded by life insurance, embed succession triggers in shareholder agreements, and facilitate leadership transitions that maintain operational continuity and family control.
7. Estate and Trust Litigation We represent beneficiaries, executors, and trustees in the Courts, contesting wills on grounds of capacity or undue influence, removing negligent trustees, or defending fiduciary duty claims with forensic precision.
8. Charitable and Philanthropic Planning We can establish private ancillary funds (PAFs), charitable trusts, and testamentary CRUTs 
9. International Estate Planning Leveraging our national and global counsel, we can draft multi-jurisdictional wills, navigate succession laws in the EU, UK, or US, and apply tax treaties to eliminate double taxation. Foreign asset reporting (ATO, FATCA, CRS) can be seamlessly managed.