Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Chair
Dr. Rhonda Powell, Barrister, Kate Sheppard Chambers and Clarendon Chambers
Resettling and Winding Up Trusts
- Review of trust purposes
- Relevant considerations from the perspective of the trustee and the beneficiaries
Presented by Vicki Ammundsen, Director, Vicki Ammundsen Trust Law
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Learning Objectives
- Understand the legal and practical considerations involved in resettling or winding up a trust
- Identify trustee and beneficiary perspectives when reviewing trust purposes and distribution outcomes
Presenters
Dr Rhonda Powell, Barrister, Kate Sheppard Chambers and Clarendon Chambers
Dr Rhonda Powell is a Christchurch barrister specialising in equity & trusts, estates, relationship property and applications under the Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act 1988. She is regularly appointed by the Family Court as Lawyer for Subject Person. Rhonda regularly appears in the Family Court and the Senior Courts and appeared for the successful party in Cooper v Pinney [2024] NZSC 181. She has experience in resolving a range of trust-related disputes both in and out of Court.
Vicki Ammundsen, Director, Vicki Ammundsen Trust Law
Vicki is the director at Vicki Ammundsen Trust Law Limited, which she established in 2015. Vicki is also the author of a number of books on trusts and trustees including Taxation of Trusts, ed 5, Trustee Liability, ed 2 and the Trustee’s Handbook, ed 5 (all published by Wolters Kluwer). She has presented at conferences in New Zealand and internationally on trust-related topics. Vicki also writes the blog Matters of Trust, which is a valuable trust and estate law resource. Vicki uses her day-to-day experience with trusts and estates and her deep knowledge of relevant case law to underpin her practical, solutions-focused approach to dealing with a range of matters touching on trusts and estates. She firmly believes that trusts have an important role to play in inter-generational asset management, but that this is risked by a lack of understanding of effective or appropriate trust management that too often leads to misunderstanding or abuse.
