The legal risks and impediments of estate and succession planning in rural New Zealand
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to consider the legal risks and impediments of estate and
succession planning in rural New Zealand. The success of New Zealand's rural industry is
driven by the most appropriate people, farming families. The success of rural communities
largely rests upon the proper succession of farms (normally family farms) to successive
generations.
In my desire to better understand estate and farm succession planning I reviewed the case
law in New Zealand that involved farming families. By reviewing these cases I was able to
better understand where lessons could be learned and how ineffective some farming
families have been in trying to achieve a succession plan when the very best of intentions
were present.... [Show full abstract]
Keywords
succession planning; estate planning; rural property; family farmsFields of Research
150403 Real Estate and Valuation Services; 180124 Property Law (excl. Intellectual Property Law); 070102 Agricultural Land PlanningDate
2011Type
MonographAccess Rights
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