Protect your financial future with expert, personalised guidance from our Melbourne Asset Protection Lawyers. We specialise in creating tailored strategies to secure your personal and business assets, minimise risks and provide long-term protection, whether you’re entering a relationship, managing wealth, or planning for future generations.
Backed by more than 50 years of legal experience, our team brings trusted guidance and in-depth knowledge to our work, protecting your interests with care and precision.
We provide clear, competitive pricing upfront – no hidden costs, just reliable legal support that delivers value and peace of mind.
We support you at every step, from initial consultation through to final agreement, ensuring every clause suits your unique needs and circumstances.
At Tonkin Legal, we specialise in wealth protection strategies for both married and de facto couples. Whether you’re entering a relationship with existing assets or planning for the future, our experienced legal team helps protect your financial interests with clarity and care.
We can assist you in creating a Binding Financial Agreement, ensuring it is clearly drafted and fully compliant with Australian family law, minimising risk and reducing the likelihood of future disputes. We provide practical, personalised advice, so you have confidence and peace of mind around your financial matters.
Want to learn more about financial agreements? Watch our insightful video with St John Heath, where we dive deep into the essentials of prenuptial and binding financial agreements. Get expert advice on how to protect your assets and ensure fairness in your relationship.
Every couple’s situation is unique, and the most effective wealth protection strategies are those tailored to your specific needs and goals. Whether you’re entering a new relationship, planning a family, or protecting long-held assets, our experienced legal team provides clear, customised advice. We help you navigate Australia’s family law system with confidence, ensuring your financial future is protected with thoughtful, legally sound solutions.
A Binding Financial Agreement (Prenuptial agreements) is a legally enforceable document that outlines how a couple’s assets, liabilities, and finances will be divided if the relationship ends. These agreements can be made before, during, or after a relationship or marriage. BFAs are especially useful for protecting pre-existing wealth, inheritances, or business interests, and help minimise future disputes by clearly setting out financial expectations in advance.
A testamentary trust is created through a will and comes into effect after death. It allows you to control how your assets are managed and distributed, offering long-term asset protection for beneficiaries. This is particularly beneficial for blended families or protecting inheritances from future relationship breakdowns. Testamentary trusts also provide tax flexibility and help ensure your wealth supports future generations according to your wishes.
With over 50 years of experience, Tonkin Family Laywers provides strategic, personalised advice to help protect your assets and financial interests. Whether you’re entering a relationship, managing family wealth, or planning for the future, we deliver clear legal solutions designed to minimise risk and safeguard what matters most.
We prepare legally binding financial agreements before, during, or after relationships to clearly define how assets, debts, and finances will be divided, minimising future disputes and protecting your wealth.
Relationships and financial situations change. We review and update your existing financial agreements to ensure they remain fair, enforceable, and aligned with your current circumstances and legal obligations.
We establish testamentary trusts through your will to protect inheritances, manage long-term wealth distribution, and provide tax-effective asset protection—ideal for blended families and vulnerable beneficiaries.
We provide clear, personalised estate planning advice to help you make informed decisions about your assets, beneficiaries, and legal arrangements, ensuring your wishes are honoured and your legacy protected.
We help you appoint trusted individuals to make financial, medical, and personal decisions if you lose capacity, providing security and clarity and reducing the risk of disputes in times of vulnerability.
We advise on ownership structures like trusts, companies, or joint tenancies to protect personal and business assets, limit risk in family law matters, and provide long-term financial control.
We help you regularly update your will and superannuation nominations to reflect life changes and ensure your estate is distributed as intended, avoiding unintended outcomes and potential legal disputes.
Protect your future with a tailored asset protection strategy. Contact our Melbourne family law team for a transparent cost estimate and expert legal advice on long-term asset protection.
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A Binding Financial Agreement (BFA), also known as a prenuptial agreement, outlines how personal assets, liabilities, and finances will be handled if a relationship ends. It’s a legal strategy that helps limit creditor claims and reduce family disputes by clearly documenting financial expectations, which is beneficial for those entering a relationship with valuable assets or business interests.
Testamentary trusts, created through your will, are legal structures that allow you to control how assets are distributed to family members after your death. They offer strong protection against creditor claims, bankruptcy or relationship breakdowns. Often used as part of financial planning, these trusts can help safeguard valuable assets from external risks and ensure they’re managed in line with your wishes.
These documents form part of a holistic view of asset protection, enabling someone you trust to manage your affairs if you lose capacity. This can prevent poor financial decisions, protect against creditor claims, and reduce the risk of family disputes. A litigation lawyer may be needed if there’s a challenge to your appointed decision-maker or concerns about misuse of personal assets.
Strategic asset structuring involves using the right structures, such as discretionary trusts, companies, or business entities, to hold assets. These legal strategies help limit creditors’ access to personal assets, protect business owners under debtor-creditor law, and separate business and personal finances. Choosing the proper structure early is critical in minimising potential risks, especially in the event of bankruptcy or litigation.
Regular reviews of your will and superannuation nominations ensure that your estate plan aligns with your current financial planning and legal structures. This helps limit exposure to creditor claims and prevents family disputes over valuable assets. Superannuation, in particular, sits outside your will, so it’s essential to coordinate both to ensure your intentions are followed and risks are minimised.
Our estate planning services take a holistic view of your financial and legal affairs. We work closely with clients to develop tailored legal strategies that protect personal assets, business entities, and family wealth. From discretionary trusts to prenuptial agreements, we help identify potential risks, implement the right structures, and ensure your legacy is protected from creditors, litigation and disputes.
You can lose assets in a dispute if protection isn’t in place. Our asset protection lawyers use trusts, financial agreements & tailored estate plans to help reduce risk. Protect your assets by starting today.
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