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CDH offers a proactive approach to Trust and Estate administration. First and foremost, we listen to our clients and work closely with them to develop their long-term personal and family financial goals.
Our wide range of trust and estate services includes:
- Estate planning.
- Antenuptial contracts.
- Formation and registration ofinter vivostrusts.
- Wills.
- Testamentary trusts.
- Estate administration.
- Trust governance and administration.
- Contentious estates.
- Curatorship applications and administration.
Our Trusts & Estates lawyers know how to approach complexissues creatively, with your interests in mind,and how to protect you against futurelegal problems.
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Gauteng
Johannesburg Regional Office 1 Protea Place Sandown, Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa, 2196, Sandton
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Western Cape
11 Buitengracht Street PO Box 695, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, 8000, Cape Town
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“To set-off or not to set-off?”
Set-off allows the termination of obligations without an exchange of performance. Where parties are indebted to one another, set-off operates automatically under the common law when the requirements for set-off are satisfied. Under sections 90 and 124 of the National Credit Act (NCA), the process is…
Ruling on unitised incentive scheme does not provide much clarity
An employee incentive scheme that is commonly used works as follows: A company forms a trust. The company funds the trust, and the trust then uses the funds to buy shares in the company. The employees of the company are given units in the trust, usually free of charge. The units entitle the employees…
“To set-off or not to set-off?”
Set-off allows the termination of obligations without an exchange of performance. Where parties are indebted to one another, set-off operates automatically under the common law when the requirements for set-off are satisfied. Under sections 90 and 124 of the National Credit Act (NCA), the process is…
Ruling on unitised incentive scheme does not provide much clarity
An employee incentive scheme that is commonly used works as follows: A company forms a trust. The company funds the trust, and the trust then uses the funds to buy shares in the company. The employees of the company are given units in the trust, usually free of charge. The units entitle the employees…