Articles - Trust Law

When trustees go rogue – getting trustees to exercise powers for a proper purpose

New Zealand in the 1990s and 2000s went through a boom in the creation of family trusts. A big part of it was parents establishing trusts to protect the family home and other assets for their children. Many of those trusts are now coming to fruition as the parents...

Getting the real oil: Addleman v Lambie and a beneficiaries’ rights to trust information

The case of Addleman v Lambie[1] gave the Court of Appeal an opportunity to apply Erceg[2] to a fresh set of facts. THE FACTS Prudence Addleman and her sister, Annette Jamieson were estranged sisters. They were the only living final beneficiaries of the Lambie Trust...

Trust Litigation 101: The Fundamentals

What are the Trustees? Trustees are the people who are in charge of the money or other property which is the subject of the trust – usually there are two or more trustees but sometimes there is only one. For all trusts, the trustees receive the trust property from someone

Time Limits for making claims against estates are brutal

New Zealand in the 1990s and 2000s went through a boom in the creation of family trusts. A big part of it was parents establishing trusts to protect the family home and other assets for their children. Many of those trusts are now coming to fruition as the parents…

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