Seminars

From time to time we run seminars on topics relevant to our specialist practice areas. Larger seminars are held at venues in Lower Hutt and Wellington. Small group seminars are held in our Lower Hutt Office Boardroom, Level 5, Westfield Tower, 45 Knights Road, Lower Hutt.

Upcoming Seminars

 

1. Secure Your Future Today - The Asset Protection Seminar

Our next Asset Protection Seminar will be held at a date to be advised. You may register your interest in attending this seminar by using the online registration form below. If you would like a one on one attendance with one of our trust lawyers prior to the seminar please contact either James Young at jayoung@gywlaw.co.nz or Rod Gillespie at rngillespie@gywlaw.co.nz.

There are many groups within society whose assets are particularly at risk. What they do today will materially affect the fate of those assets in years to come. Doing nothing is a recipe for disaster. The first step to protecting your assets is understanding the risks that confront you and the methods available for protecting them.

Seminar Outline

At Risk Groups and the Risks They Run

• Recently separated – protecting what you have left.
• In or considering a new relationship – pre-emptive steps that head off potential problems later.
• Happily married but worried that if you die your assets will go to your spouse’s new partner?
• Blended families – families with children by different parents – making sure your children not your partner’s children ultimately get your assets if you separate or die.
• Nearing retirement – getting your assets within the residential care subsidy eligibility criteria.
• Age care – one of you needs to go into care – protecting your assets.

Asset Protection Tools

• Family Trusts
  - What makes a trust different?
  - How do trusts protect assets?
  - How should they be structured?
  - Transferring assets to a trust.
  - Trust establishment and administration.
• Relationship Property Agreements
  - What are they?
  - How can they protect assets?
  - Legal requirements for enforceability.
  - When can they be set aside?
• Wills - The Forgotten Tool of Asset Protection
  - Using your will as an asset protector.
  - Will trusts.
  - Protecting children of first marriages and second spouses.
  - Risks of challenge.
  - Family Protection and Testamentary Promises claims.
  - Will contracts.

Seminar Charge: $20.00 per person ($30.00 per couple) - to be collected at the seminar.

Register below now. Numbers are limited, registrations will be accepted on a first come, first served basis.

 

2. HOMEBUYERS SEMINAR

Homebuyers Seminars will be held on dates to be advised. You may register your interest in attending a future seminar by using the online registration form below. If you would like a one on one attendance with one of our property lawyers prior to the seminar please contact Jeremy Hucker at jlhucker@gywlaw.co.nz.

Buying and selling your home in the current market can be a daunting task. Opportunities for making the wrong decision are present every step of the way. The market, nevertheless, offers some unique opportunities. Our property lawyers are specialists. Its what we do. Benefit from our collective experience in having acted on thousands of residential conveyancing transactions. Attendees at this seminar will come away with an appreciation of the many things they should be taking into account and the pitfalls out there for the unwary. They can expect to make better buying decisions and to be fully informed on the process they are about to embark on.

Seminar Outline - The New Market

Interest rates down and falling

• Who is best placed to take advantage?
• First homebuyers
• Existing home owners

Opportunities for high equity homeowners

• Price spread in a deflated market
• Sale and purchase strategies

Investment property

• Leveraging in the current market

Why Are You Buying?

• Home
• Investment
• Home/investment

Location - Where Should You Buy?

• Hot/cold/warm capital growth/resale areas;
• Proximity to schools, transport, shops, relatives.

Familiarising Yourself With the Market - Doing the Ground Work

• Internet
• Agents
• Open homes

How Much Can You Afford? A Review Of:

• Loan/equity ratios and loan structuring options;
• Online tools

How Much Should You Pay? Determining Value

• Agents
• QV
• Valuers

Purchase Strategies for Various Sale Processes

• Private Treaty
• Tenders
• Auctions

Non-Agent Purchases

• Private sale
• Private sale companies
• Trade Me

How much will you be able to borrow?

• New bank lending policies

Raising Finance

• Banks
• Brokers
• Welcome Home Loan Scheme - Are you eligible?

Demystifying the Conveyancing Process

• Step by step through the various conveyancing stages of a house purchase;
• Pre-contract
• Contract formation
• Buying as an individual or through a Trust
• Contract conditions
• Settlement
• Relationship Property Agreement required.

KeyTrack Conveyancing

• Our on-line/email/text conveyancing milestone communication system.

Seminar Charge: $20.00 per person ($30.00 per couple) - to be collected at the seminar.

Register below now. Numbers are limited, registrations will be accepted on a first come, first served basis.