The Legal Advice Office offers affordable Legal Advice as well as Legal and Paralegal Services throughout South Africa.
Our legal advice and services are based on 40 years of experience in the professional legal field. As a purely internet based legal consultancy business, we pride ourselves in personal, professional and efficient service at affordable rates and undertake to revert to our clients within 48 hours of their query being received by us.
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“About three weeks ago a man started sending me inappropriate e-mails and posting lewd and suggestive comments and messages on my Facebook and Google plus pages. I’ve tried blocking the person and telling him to stop, but he keeps changing his email address and user profile and keeps coming back. I am at my wit's end and don’t even want to look at my phone or computer anymore. Is there anything I can do?”
The general nature of a discretionary trust is to exist separately from the donor, with the trustees owning and managing the trust assets to the benefit of the beneficiaries of the said trust (in their capacity as trustees acting in a fiduciary relationship).
The assets that have been donated or sold to the trust are legally owned separately from the donor and the trustees’ personal estate and accordingly do not form part of the personal estates of the donor or trustees. These assets are kept, owned and managed on behalf of the discretionary beneficiaries. These are the core principles which the majority of people who establish trusts, are familiar with.
We received this query a week ago.
“My mother has been living with Alzheimer’s for a number of years now. She has always been very independent and insisted on managing her own affairs and finances even after my father passed away in 2008. Unfortunately, of late, she has deteriorated very badly, to the point where I am very concerned about her financial situation and her care. I know my father left her some money, and I want to make sure that this money is correctly used for her care and wellbeing. But am I allowed to take over control of her affairs?”
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