Tyn Receveur

Email Contact: tyn@murfett.com.autyn

Tyn Receveur is a Senior Commercial Lawyer and part of the commercial team.

Areas of Expertise

  • Wills and Estate Planning
  • Business succession planning
  • Trusts, including formation, review, variation and winding up
  • Enduring Powers of Attorneys and Enduring Powers of Guardianship
  • Applications in the State Administrative Tribunal under the Guardianship and Administration Act 1990
  • Advice on wills, disputed estates and Inheritance Act claims
  • Estate administration including applications for Probate/ Letters of Administration
  • Charities and not-for-profit organisations, including formations,
  • Superannuation (including Self Managed Superannuation Funds) and associated transactions
  • Binding Financial Agreements for family law purposes
  • All associated taxation advice

Summary

Tyn brings over 27 years of broad commercial experience as a former principal of  firms in Tasmania and New Zealand, with a focus on Succession Planning, Trusts, Superannuation, Powers of Attorney, the Administration of Deceased Estates (including estate litigation), Guardianship and Family Law.

Over the years Tyn has assisted numerous clients with their needs, ranging from simple yet essential wills and trusts to complex multiple asset and international wills and deceased estates.  He has conducted superior court litigation concerning deceased estates, appeared in the State Administration Tribunal on Guardianship and Administration Act matters and has experience in Family Law litigation, which is valuable in estate planning.

As a Trust & Estate Professional (TEP), Tyn now practises extensively in providing clients with integrated plans and solutions for managing their personal wealth and dealing with the complexities arising from the many, often competing, aims. These include:

  • Reaching a position on the appropriate distribution of one’s wealth to partners, family and other beneficiaries in routine or special personal or family circumstances
  • Drafting and advising in complex Wills, testamentary trusts and succession planning matters
  • Ensuring the right people are appointed and perform as trustees and executors or attorneys
  • Minimizing present and future income tax and capital gains tax exposure and gaining optimum tax savings
  • Minimizing the risks of potential claims due to insolvency, incapacity, under the Inheritance Act and in Family Law generally
  • Ensuring family trusts and superannuation assets are properly managed and passed on
  • Organising legal control of business structures to facilitate future change
  • Creating tax effective entities for wealth management, including Self Managed Superannuation Funds

Qualifications and Memberships

  • Bachelor of Laws - University of Canterbury, New Zealand (1978)
  • TEP - Member of the Society for Trust and Estate Professionals (STEP)
  • Diploma in Advocacy
  • Member of Western Australia Family Practitioners Association
  • Qualified Mediator
  • Member of the Family Section of the Law Council of Australia
  • Member of Law Society of Western Australia
  • Former Investigations Officer for the Law Society of Tasmania

Admission Details:

  • Admitted in New Zealand (1983), Tasmania (1989) and Western Australia (2009)
  • Admitted to the High Court of Australia (1989)