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Act On Wealth Team | December 30, 2024

Essential Guide to Estate Planning: Protect Your Legacy


Estate planning is more than just drafting a will. It involves creating a comprehensive strategy to manage and distribute your wealth effectively. A well-prepared estate plan ensures your assets go to the right people at the right time, in a tax-efficient and legally compliant manner.


Estate planning is more than just drafting a will. It involves creating a comprehensive strategy to manage and distribute your wealth effectively. A well-prepared estate plan ensures your assets go to the right people at the right time, in a tax-efficient and legally compliant manner.
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"Estate planning is more than just drafting a Will—it’s about creating a comprehensive strategy to manage and distribute your wealth effectively."

Act On Wealth TeamEstate planning is more than just drafting a Will—it’s about creating a comprehensive strategy to manage and distribute your wealth effectively.

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Ensure your wealths future with comprehensive estate planning.

Unleashing Financial Security: The Importance of Estate Planning

Estate planning is more than just drafting a will it's about creating a comprehensive strategy to manage and distribute your wealth effectively. A well-prepared estate plan ensures your assets are passed on to the right people at the right time in a tax-efficient and legally compliant manner.

Why Estate Planning is Essential

Clarity and Control

Ensure Your Wishes Are Honoured: An estate plan makes sure your desires are respected after you pass away. Avoid Disputes: It helps prevent conflicts among family members and loved ones.

Financial Efficiency

Minimise Tax Liabilities: A good plan can reduce the tax burden on your beneficiaries. Protect Your Assets: Keep your wealth safe from unnecessary legal and administrative costs.

Comprehensive Coverage

Address All Assets: Include things that might not automatically be part of your estate, such as superannuation and life insurance. Plan for the Unexpected: Use tools like a power of attorney to manage your affairs if you become incapacitated.

Key Components of an Estate Plan

Will

A legally binding document that outlines how your estate assets will be distributed.

Power of Attorney

Authorises a trusted person to manage your financial and legal affairs if you become incapacitated.

Testamentary Trusts

Provides asset protection and tax planning opportunities for your beneficiaries.

Superannuation and Life Insurance

Ensures these nonestate assets are directed to the right individuals or entities through binding nominations.

Asset Ownership Structures

Clarifies how assets owned jointly or in a trust will be managed.

How Acton Wealth Can Help

At Acton Wealth, we work closely with financial, legal, and taxation professionals to help you develop a tailored estate plan that reflects your unique circumstances.

Navigate Complex Laws and Regulations: We ensure your plan is legally compliant. Protect Your Legacy: We help safeguard your wealth for future generations.

Contact us today to start your estate planning journey with confidence.

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Estate Planning Mistakes

An estate plan outlines how your wealth and assets will be preserved, managed and allocated in the event of death or incapacitation. More importantly, its a way to ensure that your loved ones are cared for and your wishes are honoured after youre gone. While it may be difficult to think about, creating an estate plan is essential if you want to leave everything and everyone taken care of, just as you intend.


An estate plan outlines how your wealth and assets will be preserved, managed and allocated in the event of death or incapacitation. More importantly, its a way to ensure that your loved ones are cared for and your wishes are honoured after youre gone. While it may be difficult to think about, creating an estate plan is essential if you want to leave everything and everyone taken care of, just as you intend.
Unleashing Financial Security Why is Estate Planning Important

Estate planning is of utmost importance in securing your finances and safeguarding the well-being of your loved ones. It involves creating a comprehensive plan to manage and distribute your assets after your passing, as well as addressing legal, financial, and medical matters.


Estate planning is of utmost importance in securing your finances and safeguarding the well-being of your loved ones. It involves creating a comprehensive plan to manage and distribute your assets after your passing, as well as addressing legal, financial, and medical matters.
Estate Planning Advice

Is your will up to date? If not, you risk leaving the people you care about (and the assets youve worked so hard to build) vulnerable. Avoid handing over the distribution of your estate to others. Instead, speak to a specialist advisor from our ActOn Wealth estate planning Melbourne team, and lets ensure the right people are looked after as you intended.


Is your will up to date? If not, you risk leaving the people you care about (and the assets youve worked so hard to build) vulnerable. Avoid handing over the distribution of your estate to others. Instead, speak to a specialist advisor from our ActOn Wealth estate planning Melbourne team, and lets ensure the right people are looked after as you intended.

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Questions
What is Estate Planning?

It involves managing your financial affairs to protect and distribute your assets according to your wishes upon your passing or incapacity. Key components include creating a will, setting up trusts, nominating beneficiaries, appointing a power of attorney, and establishing an advance care directive. Regularly reviewing and updating your estate plan ensures it reflects changes in your circumstances and provides peace of mind for you and your loved ones.

What's the difference between an Estate Plan and a Will?

Estate planning in Australia is a comprehensive process that manages your financial affairs, ensuring your assets are protected and distributed according to your wishes. A will, on the other hand, is a crucial legal document that outlines asset distribution after death and appoints an executor. While a will is an essential component, estate planning covers a broader scope, providing a more complete approach to safeguarding your wealth and supporting your loved ones' future.

Can Estate Financial Planning help reduce taxes?

Yes, strategic planning can help minimise your estate taxes. Our financial advisors in Melbourne are skilled at devising tax-efficient estate plans.

What Others Say


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My husband and I engaged ActOn Wealth to help us set up our life and income protection insurance. Our advisor was responsive, friendly, professional, flexible in times he could meet with us and really on the ball with the whole process. We were able to get our policies set up quickly and achieve that peace of mind we were seeking. Thanks, ActOn Wealth for helping us protect our family against the unexpected. We will certainly be recommending them to our friends and family.


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My husband and I engaged ActOn Wealth to help us set up our life and income protection insurance. Our advisor was responsive, friendly, professional, flexible in times he could meet with us and really on the ball with the whole process. We were able to get our policies set up quickly and achieve that peace of mind we were seeking. Thanks, ActOn Wealth for helping us protect our family against the unexpected. We will certainly be recommending them to our friends and family.
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We have been working with Blyth and the team at ActonWealth for a few years now and been steadily building a nice portfolio of investments to secure our financial future.
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The team at Acton Wealth were great to work with. They were prompt, thorough and very detailed in their assistance with setting up a financial plan for mum’s Aged Care.


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The team at Acton Wealth were great to work with. They were prompt, thorough and very detailed in their assistance with setting up a financial plan for mum’s Aged Care.

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