Elder Law, Capacity and Succession

Hear from some of the best lawyers in the disability sector as they review recent changes to SDA regulations; financing disability and SDA housing; practice standards and worker screening requirements under the NDIS Quality & Safeguarding Framework; and key learnings from The Royal Commission. Review other laws that impact on your business including privacy and cyber-security, consumer laws, employment law, workplace manslaughter offences & more.

These are times of rapid change for aged care providers, retirement villages and residents, so it’s essential that you’re across a wide range of issues. We’ll help you do just that with practical, information-packed sessions covering critical financial matters facing residents and providers, resident care concerns, the hottest issues in employment law, the latest legislative updates and reforms and more, all packed into one revelatory conference.

Issues covered include: Royal Commission update, convergence and seniors living, wills and estates, care services and GST, elder abuse

Issues covered include: capacity, unconscionable conduct, sexual issues, privacy, data security, convergence and seniors living

Don’t miss your chance to examine critical regulatory and employment issues reforming the aged care sector right now. Join legal experts offering in-depth insights into the Royal Commission & regulatory reforms, how to deal with complaints, investigations & the Regulator, duty of care issues, whistleblowing, NDIS, & the new SIRS regime. Explore timely workplace issues including managing underperformance, dismissals, staff mental health, vaccination protocols, health & safety updates & IR reforms. WEB216N26

Maximise quality of care & minimise risk by gaining urgent updates & in-depth guidance into the key resident care issues in the aged care sector right now. Examine how to respond to and report sexual assaults. Consider how to deal with residents and restraints. Get up to date on the latest in resident privacy issues. Explore takeaways from recent coronial inquests and gain up to date guidance on the latest risk management and regulatory compliance strategies related to client care. WEB216V05

Prepare yourself to navigate the many new legal, regulatory & compliance risks facing the aged care and retirement village industries right now. Scrutinise the latest legislation in regulatory compliance and governance. Catch up on the critical employment law concerns now facing the industry. Consider how to manage disputes, elder abuse, & capacity issues. Consider care agreements and contracts in today’s environment. Examine emerging finance and funding issues.

Issues covered include: Standards and regulatory compliance, clinical compliance, employment law updates and key changes

2019 is a significant year for the retirement village and aged care sectors. The Royal Commission is shaking up the industry, elder abuse and tax law are changing, and there are big shifts in integration and funding issues. Plus the many risks in estate planning, capacity, technology and more. With so much unrest in the sector it’s now more crucial than ever to stay up to date with the latest developments. Equip yourself with the strategies necessary to handle these issues for you client or organisation.

Issues covered include: Estate planning, vulnerable beneficiaries, beneficiary, urgent applications, interlocutory applications, enduring powers of attorney, variation of trusts, business succession, death benefit, succession law, ethics, conflicts of interests, testamentary capacity, interview skills, technology, business model, marketing, cost, fixed pricing

Issues covered include: deceased estates, superannuation, family provision applications, urgent and interlocutory applications, mediation, ethics, risk management, capacity, vulnerability

Issues covered include: Retainer, Compliance, Uniform Law, Fixed fee, Disputes, Costs Recovery, Billing.

Issues covered include: Guardianship division, SACAT, elder law, elder abuse, powers of attorney, advance care derivatives, capacity, mental impairment

Issues covered include: Blended Families and Vulnerable Beneficiaries, Enduring powers of guardianship, Family Provision Act, Business Succession, Property, Beddoe applications, Benjamin orders, Succession, Wills, s45 Administration Act, s92 Trustees Act.

Issues covered include: contributions, property, investments, death benefits, insurance

Issues covered include: precedents, discretionary trusts, value, asset protection and utility, inter vivos trusts, family trusts, superannuation, life insurance, family succession

Issues covered include: trust structures, distribution strategies, asset protection

Issues covered include: ATO, Taxation of trusts, Trust splitting, Fixed trust, distribution of capital gains, trust strutures, asset protection, sham trust, discretionary trust drafting, trust vesting and winding up, UPEs, Division 7A, loans, transfer duty on specie distributions, Trust Variations and Resolutions, Corporate Trustees, testamentary trusts.

Issues covered include: Capacity, capacity disputes, equitable remedies, estate litigation, undue influence, unconscionable conduct, estoppel, extension of time, mediation, superannuation, testamentary trusts, enduring powers of attorney, financial agreements

Issues covered include: Informal wills, Succession, Beneficiaries, Testators, Recent cases, Superannuation, Succession Law and Family Law, contested Probate, Undue Influence, Claims for adult children.