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WILLS AND ESTATE PLANNING

A Lazarus Legal wills & succession lawyer will protect your legacy

Our Wills & Estate Planning Services

You spend a lifetime building, maintaining and growing your success, but there comes a point when what really matters is the legacy that you leave behind. At these moments you want to make sure that those who you love or wish to thank are rewarded and taken care of when you are no longer here.

For many, planning your estate and writing your will can be a difficult matter to get to grips with, but one which is important if you want your wishes to be respected when you can no longer express them. Lazarus Legal wills and succession specialists can provide you with sensitive and expert support to make this process as simple as possible. 

Our Wills and Estate Planning services include:

Leaving a secure and lasting legacy with sensitive, expert legal advice.

Prepare your will today, don't put it off

If you know that writing a will and planning your legacy is something you should do and keep putting it off, you need expert and sensitive legal help to make the process simple. Let a Lazarus Legal wills and succession specialist be your guide. Fill out this form and our team will call you to listen and guide you through the next steps. One of our specialists will meet you for a free initial consultation at our Bondi Junction office or your preferred location. Let’s protect your legacy together.

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Our Wills & Estate Planning Process

Initial free consultation

Assessment of requirements

Discuss our flexible fee arrangement

Commence the work

What you can expect

Wills and estate planning isn’t just about the money you leave behind, it’s also about your wider interests and legacy, including businesses and property. If you’ve lived a full and successful life, that can often mean a complex legal landscape. We’ll help you map it, and make it easy for your wishes to be respected after you have gone.

Our expert wills and succession lawyers will advise on a range of services to assist you and your family and the other people you care about. Our team will also work with you and your close network of professionals to ensure that your estate and intentions are taken care of as you deem fit. We will do what it takes to ensure that your wishes are carried out.

Frequently Asked Questions

A will is a legal document that sets out how you wish your assets to be distributed when you die. Also, if you have minor children, it nominates a guardian (or guardians) who will care for them after your death.

Studies have shown that at least 45% of Australians do not have a valid will. Some people wonder whether they need a will at all. To answer the question, consider what can happen if you don’t have a will when you die. If you die without a will, your money, property and other assets divided up according to certain standardised rules (called “intestacy rules”). Most people prefer to take active control over this, rather than have it divided according to a government-imposed formula. Making a will is the only way to ensure your assets will be distributed according to your wishes after you die.

Your will is legally valid if:

  1. you are 18 years or older;
  2. it is in writing: either handwritten, typed or printed;
  3. it is signed by the person making the will in the presence of at least two witnesses who must also sign; and
  4. the will-maker has what is known as “testamentary capacity”. This essentially means they must be of sound mind and not be under any duress when making the will.
The Australian legal system is complex and the laws surrounding wills differ per jurisdiction. As a will is an extremely important document that should be made legal proof and in your best interests, a good lawyer can be a sound inverstment if you want the peace of mind that comes with knowing your will is going to be respected. Life changes can make an existing will invalid, such as divorce. In short, a lawyer can help you to ensure your large estates and wishes are met with minimal risk.

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Wills and trusts can be used to accomplish many goals, and they can be as flexible as your needs and wishes require. Ensuring that those needs and wishes are carried out requires careful planning in choosing the best trusts or the best provisions for your will. Led by a professional legal team, Lazarus Legal can simplify the complex terminology and walk you through the best 

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Barry Lazarus

CEO & Notary Public

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We’d be lying if we told you that this bloke isn’t the big honcho of our team, but his name is a dead give-away. The founder of Lazarus Legal, Barry is an old school, tough as nails lawyer. They don’t forge litigators like this anymore.

With decades of experience in both Australia and South Africa, his wisdom is as renowned as his name. Back in the days when Schwarzenegger and Van Damme were kicking ass on VHS, Barry was kicking ass in the courtroom. And after all these years, he still has a reputation for refusing to back down.Barry is definitely the badass you’d want in a fight – in court or otherwise. But really, he’s a big softie. Just don’t let him know you know that (although he probably won’t read this anyway – navigating the Internet is not his strong point).

Aside from putting other lawyers in their place, taking long walks on the beach and spending time with his family, Barry enjoys seeing others succeed. Not only is Barry a staunch and unmoving litigator, he has sharp business and commercial acumen having started up ventures from scratch and growing them into full-blown franchises – from real estate to creating ice cream, to making pasta. With his experience on both sides of the commercial and legal equation, you want this guy to be on your side, whether you’re the next Zuckerberg realising your genius, or the next Zuckerberg taking on your opponents in court.

When Barry is not busy lawyering about, he is a part-time lawn bowler and a wannabe comedian, but never took both as a day job, because let’s face it, he’s a lot better at his day job.

If someone ever threatens you to lawyer up…relax, call Barry and he’ll handle the rest. 

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Mark Lazarus

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The visionary behind the business and the fresh blood of the Lazarus Legal team, Mark (or Laz as he is often known) owes much of his success to his past stories and experiences. And he’s made it his personal goal to bring that wisdom and formula to the firm.

He’s a bit of jet setter, splitting his time between Australia and the UK, maximising every hour of his professional life. He thrives on this adrenalin. It allowed him to work in private practice in Sydney, act for a host of famous celebrities in London, do a two year stint as a NSW barrister (and not the pretentious coffee type in the Melbourne laneways) and more recently did a gig as the Legal Director covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa for one of the world’s coolest fast-moving consumer good brands!  

As an Aussie and UK lawyer and former barrister, Mark not only has the gift of the gab but he’ll walk the walk to prove it too. He likes to think he’s a bit like Harvey Specter or Michael Corleone, the main difference is you can actually retain him as your lawyer and consigliere. He’ll tell you how it really is and will take on any challenge head on. Although litigation and court advocacy comes naturally to him, commercial and IP is what gets his blood pumping! 

When Mark is not out there doing his thing, you will probably catch him chilling at home with his family, on the sidelines of the soccer (football) pitch cheering on his two boys, crawling through mud obstacles, or training hard at the gym. Passion and commitment is what drives Mark to succeed, along with his burning desire to disrupt the legal profession by finding new ways to change the game.

He has sights on the future. So if you’re breaking new ground, ahead of the times, and on the verge of something big, but you need someone who’s got your back and who can give you straight up advice, this is the guy you will want on speed dial.

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