Marlee Viero

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Australian Finance Podcast · Wills & Estates: Your crash course guide from Nest Legal · 26 Jul 2021 podcast

And even things like medical treatment, decision making, you might have a really strict thing about what you want to happen.

If you were to get into an accident, like do not resuscitate or whatever your wishes might be.

And if you don't have that document, it goes to your next of kin.

But if your next of kin's position on those types of things doesn't align with yours, you know, that's not a great way to have everything end up.

Yeah, absolutely.

And those powers of attorney documents are also useful for making sure that your children can be maintained if you're alive but you've lost capacity, like a permanent disability or something like that.

They're almost more important, I think, because you're actually alive.

So appointing people in those positions is so important because that's affecting your day-to-day life.

Yeah, super is so, so important, especially if you think you've got no assets, you could have something tied up with your super.

And it has been in the news a lot lately.

I'm sure we all know what we're referring to there.

So with super, you can nominate a beneficiary just like you can through your will.

So it could be your spouse.

It could be your children.

There are also nominations that can be invalid.

So nominating someone that actually isn't a financial dependent of yours could be invalid, which is where we recommend people nominate their estate or their legal personal representative instead.

And that way, your superannuation and any associated benefits with that can actually form part of your asset pool and flow through your will in however you'd like your will to be structured.

So by doing a binding nomination, your super fund is bound by whoever you've appointed.

And if you do a non-binding nomination,

Or basically what happens in that case is the super fund has a little bit of wriggle room.

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