During our recent master class seminars on trusts, one specific issue that was addressed related to updating family trusts after the Bamford decision and related legislation.
The post today is the 3rd instalment of 4 in this series of posts via the following video link under the heading ‘Deed updates by exception post Bamford’. If you would like a link to the video please let me know.
As with other video posts, for those that do not have easy access to the streaming or would otherwise prefer to read the transcript, this is set out below -
The second approach is ‘by exception’, that is you do something. So on the basis that even if you do nothing, you've got to do something; which is you've got to have someone read the deed.
The by exception approach is if it's a particularly nasty deed, or there is as particularly big capital gain this year we’re going to invest in this and we're going to look at it and we're possibly going to amend it, because of the particular circumstances.
We're going to do that, because even doing nothing, we've actually sat down and looked at the document and we understand it.
The trigger for a lot of people on that, if you're looking for a date, but don’t quote me because again not all deed providers were diligent in doing this, but by and large, any deed after 1993, from any even remotely reputable provider, will have streaming.
So if you're looking for a date to say I would hope to be basically right, you can use 1993 as the date, because that’s when streaming ruling came out or whatever it was and most deed providers across the board went through and did it. Indeed, a lot of them went and did actual updates in 1993. So even your pre-’85 trusts had gone and had that amendment in 1993.
The next post will look at the third main approach we are seeing in this area.
Until next week.
