Monday, 25 August 2025
*Original Content was created in November 2024
Description
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Chair
Helen Tyree, Director, McWilliam Tyree Lawyers
Mitigating Potential Trust Claims in Section 21 Agreements
- The interplay between trust claims and section 21 agreements
- Potential trust claims to consider
- How to deal with potential trust claims
- Risks and issues to watch out for
Presented by Daniel McLaughlin, Special Counsel, Dentons
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to identify and manage potential trust claims when drafting s21 agreements
- Develop strategies to mitigate risks and strengthen enforceability in contracting out agreements
Presenters
Daniel McLaughlin, Special Counsel, DentonsDaniel is a Special Counsel in the Private Wealth team. He specialises in personal asset planning and structuring, and provides domestic and international clients with strategic advice in relation to the organisation and regulation of private wealth. He is an expert in trusts and trusteeship issues, wills, succession and estates, relationship property, and other personal asset planning matters. He advises private clients, family offices, trustees, and financial institutions. He also has experience with New Zealand foreign trusts, AML/CFT and the CRS and FATCA reporting regimes. Daniel's previous experience in tax law means he quickly identifies potential domestic and international tax issues that arise in relation to clients' personal asset planning.
Helen Tyree, Director, McWilliam Tyree Lawyers
Helen is a director of McWilliam Tyree Lawyers, having been an Associate and then Senior Associate at McWilliam Rennie (predecessor of McWilliam Tyree) since 2014. Helen has practiced all areas of family law since 2003. As well as acting for clients in all areas of family law, Helen has undertaken regular appointments as lawyer for child and as lawyer for subject persons under the Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act since 2008. Helen is also a contributing author for the legal publication “Brookers Family Law on Family Property”, writing about relationship property agreements (separation agreements, contracting-out agreements, and setting aside those agreements). She also contributed significantly to McWilliam Rennie’s submissions to the Law Commission in relation to their review of relationship property and then succession law. She has presented seminars for Legalwise on a range of relationship property matters, relationship property law developments and on the Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act. Helen Tyree graduated from Otago University in 2000 with a Bachelor of Laws and from Brunel University of London in 2003 with a Master of Law in Child Law and Policy (with distinction).
