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Lawyers that do Wills & are will executors near you
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Are you looking for a lawyer/attorney to draft a will for you, and to serve as will executor when you die? Here is a list of lawyers who do wills in Cape Town. Experience and efficiency counts, as does the avoidance of errors. These lawyers have all previously participated in National Wills Week. Email lawyer@capetownlawyer.co.za if you are an attorney doing wills and want to get onto this list. Being on this list does not constitute an endorsement; please carry out a full due diligence before hiring a will attorney.
Are you worried about getting overcharged? Ask your preferred lawyer what they will charge, and then think about the following:
- For a standard simple will without complications a lawyer would typically charge from about R1000 to draft it for you.
- Lawyers are usually willing to draft a will for you for free, if you are appointing them as executor of your estate when you die; in which case they usually charge abotu 2.5% to 3.5% of the value of the gross assets in the estate.
- If the attorneys will be transferring a property to your heirs, navigate to our deceased estate property transfer costs calculator to see what you should be getting charged for transfers on property your heirs are inheriting.
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Note: If you are looking for a lawyer who does deceased estates, most lawyers who do wills will also do deceased estates and are willing to serve as executors. It is often useful to choose a lawyer to be executor who is also a conveyancer, so that they can take care of any property transfers themselves.
- Lawyer: Clinton Fortuin
- Law firm: CB Fortuin & Associates
- Phone: 082 895 0714
- Address: 29 Halt Road, Elsies River, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
- Lawyer: Dennis Burt Cavernelis
- Law firm: Riley Incorporated
- Phone: 021 797 7116
- Address: 212 Rosmead Avenue, Wynberg, 7800, Cape, Western Cape, South Africa
- Lawyer: Cornelia Susanna Van Heerden
- Law firm: Heyns & Partners Incorporated
- Phone: 021 590 7200
- Address: 60 Hennie Winterbach Street, 1st Floor, Panorama Healthcare Centre, Western Cape, South Africa
- Lawyer: Jean-Andre Stroud
- Law firm: Kapp Van Wyk Van Zyk Incorporated.
- Phone: 073 980 2076
- Address: 33 Church Street, 6th floor Room 8, Vunani Chambers, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
- Lawyer: Warren Isaacs
- Law firm: W.Isaacs and Associates
- Phone: 081 542 9731
- Address: 172 10th Avenue Kensington Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
- Lawyer: Hester Kruger
- Law firm: Snymans Incorporated
- Phone: 087 350 9000
- Address: 106 Old Cape Quarter, 72 De Waterkant Street, De Waterkant, Western Cape, South Africa
- Lawyer: Ayant Jaggan
- Law firm: IIE Varsity College Community Law Clinic
- Phone: 021 003 0627
- Address: Unit 13, House Cloete, Wynberg Mews, 13 Brodie Road, Wynberg, Cape Town, 7800, Western Cape, South Africa
- Lawyer: Marja Rijke
- Law firm: Marja Rijke Attorneys
- Phone: 082 657 5550
- Address: Harfield Village Claremont Ct, Western Cape, South Africa
- Lawyer: Bevan Donald Geyser
- Law firm: MDW Cape Town Incorporated
- Phone: 021 461 0065
- Address:
- Lawyer: Freddie Steyn
- Law firm: FPS Attorneys
- Phone: 021 982 0665
- Address: 8 Gert Kotze Street Brackenfell 7560, Western Cape, South Africa
- Lawyer: Nathier Jassiem
- Law firm: M N Jassiem & Associates
- Phone: 079 888 4769
- Address: 9 Japonika Road, Belhar, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
- Lawyer: Joline Steyn
- Law firm: DKVG Attorneys
- Phone: 021 424 9200
- Address: 10th floor, The Terraces, 34 Bree Street, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
- Lawyer: Nathan Sarkas & Michael Meyer
- Law firm: Oosthuizen & Co
- Phone: 021 872 3014 ext.207
- Address: 505 Buitenkloof Studios, 8 Kloof Street, Gardens, Cape Town 8000, Western Cape, South Africa
- Lawyer: Marja Rijke
- Law firm: Marja Rijke Attorneys
- Phone: 082 657 5550
- Address: 17 Devon Street Harfield Village, Claremont, Western Cape, South Africa
- Lawyer: Naven Pillay
- Law firm: Naven Pillay Attorneys
- Phone: 084 445 4532
- Address: 1 Brunswick Street, Glencairn Heights, Western Cape, South Africa
- Lawyer: Amanda Venter, Christie Fourie
- Law firm: Christie Fourie Incorporated
- Phone: 021 981 6454
- Address: Christie Fourie Inc, 3 Handel Road, Brackenfell, Western Cape, South Africa
- Lawyer: Demetria Rwelamila
- Law firm: Barnaschone Attorneys
- Phone: 066 368 3871
- Address: Office 203, Soho-On-Strand, 128 Strand Street, De Waterkant, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
If you could not find a will attorney near you in Cape Town, please let us know so that we can extend this list to cover your area.
Struisbaai lawyers who do wills
- Lawyer: Simoné Rossouw
- Law firm: Simoné Rossouw Attorney and Conveyancer
- Phone: 076 060 5964
Contact one of the above lawyers and ask them to explain to you how to draft a will.
What type of lawyers are best for wills?
Estate planning lawyers are often the best ones to hire to set up your will; as they simultaneously will be able to weigh up iother methods of leaving your assets to your loved ones and the tax efficiency of the various methods; they are also usually willing to serve as will executors and be trustee of any trust fund.
Reasons people update/redo their wills
- Assets have changed, e.g. they may have inherited a mansion, or sold their house which they had stipulated in their will that they would leave to somebody.
- Beneficiaries may have died or there may be new beneficiaries, e.g. new children or a new spouse.
- Their old will may have had onerous conditions, for example it may have been set up by a bank who appointed themselves to be executor at high fees, which the testator has realised can be improved on with another, lower fee, executor.
Speak to key people in your will
After you die you wont be able to do this.
Speak to executor/s
Make sure that the people who you think would make good executors are willing and able to serve as executors; and what fees they would receive for doing this (or are they prepared to act as executors for free).
Speak to beneficiaries
After you have drawn up your will (or even better before) speak to the beneficiaries, let them know who the executors are, let them have a copy of the will. The last thing you want is for there to be uncertainty and fights after your death.
Family, Estate & notarial legal services
Deceased Estate Information
If a relative has died, perhaps without a will, and you are unsure of what do:
- Report deceased estate to the Master online
- Steps to take when your parent dies without a will.
- Lawyers in Cape Town specialising in deceased estates.
- Administrators in Cape Town for deceased estates .
- Letter of executorship requirements in South Africa.
- J192 form - next-of-kin (if no will)
- Nomination to act as executor (if no will)
- J190 form assistance
- Administration of deceased estates in South Africa.
- Property transfer cost in a deceased estate.
- Inheritance and child maintenance obligations.
- Intestate Succession Act
- Tracking deceased estates
- Death of a spouse before divorce if finalised
Wills
- How to write a will.
- Example of a last will and testament.
- Get your will drafted for free (by a lawyer).
- List of lawyers that draft wills in Cape Town.
- Consider updating your will when these events occur:
- when divorcing; to avoid your ex-spouse possibly inheriting everything.
- death of somebody mentioned in your will,
- the birth of a child you may want to include in your will,
- marriages
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Deceased Estate discussion forum
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