This talk is aimed at qualified wills and probate and private client practitioners and will look at the following areas which arise when advising elderly clients, where capacity is intact:
- Starting point: What options are on the table and what may be off for these clients – such as importance of retaining access to capital and/or income and taking into account their overall circumstances and wishes
- Special consideration of estate planning issues facing elderly business owners
- How to mitigate cybersecurity issues facing advisors for the elderly client
- Update of key estate planning provisions and analysis of when they can and cannot still be of use to these clients – such as lifetime exemptions
- The impact of electronic Wills and holograph Wills for the elderly client
Jacqui Lazare, Senior Associate, Clarke Willmott LLP