Personal Law
Clear Legal Guidance for Life’s Important Decisions
Relationship property, contracting out agreements, and other personal legal matters — handled with sensitivity, clarity, and your best interests at heart.
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Personal Legal Advice, Handled with Care
Life brings decisions that require careful legal advice. We're here to help you navigate them clearly and confidently.
Personal legal matters are often emotionally complex. Whether you're entering a new relationship and want to protect what you both bring to it, navigating a separation, dealing with a relationship property dispute, or putting the right documents in place to protect your family — we give you clear, practical advice in plain English. We take the time to understand your situation before we make any recommendations.
Our Personal Legal Services
Click any service to learn more about how we can help.
Will-Based Estate Plans
A coordinated set of documents built around a carefully prepared will — for people whose assets and family situation are relatively straightforward.
Wills & Types of Wills
Simple, Normal, and Complex wills — compared and explained so you can choose the right level of protection for your situation.
Powers of Attorney
Enduring Powers of Attorney appoint someone to act if you lose capacity. General Powers of Attorney cover temporary situations like travel.
Advance Healthcare Directives
Your living will — recording your wishes about life-support decisions, palliative care, organ donation, and medical research.
Funeral Directives
Your wishes for burial or cremation, service type, cultural or religious requirements — reducing the burden on your family at a difficult time.
List of Digital Assets & Devices
Email, social media, banking, subscriptions, cryptocurrency — so your executors can find and manage your online life.
Contracting Out Agreements
Agree in advance how you and your partner will divide property if your relationship ends. A contracting out agreement gives you certainty and protects both parties.
Relationship Property
Advice on relationship property rights under the Property (Relationships) Act — whether you're buying property together, separating, or clarifying what you each own.
Separation Agreements
A binding agreement that records how you and your partner have agreed to divide your property on separation — giving clarity and finality for both parties.
Cohabitation & Relationship Agreements
Practical agreements for couples who choose to live together or make joint financial decisions — clearly recording each party's rights and responsibilities.
🎉 Property or Business Client? Get 50% Off Your Estate Plan
If we are acting for you on a property or business matter, you are entitled to a 50% discount on a professionally prepared will-based estate plan.
Ready to Protect What Matters Most?
Request a personalised quote online, ask us anything, or if you're a new client, book a free 15-minute meeting to meet our team and see if we're the right fit.
The introductory meeting is a chance to meet our team — it is not for legal advice.
Tel: +64 9 415 0099 • reception@rossholmes.co.nz • 2 Airborne Rd, Rosedale, Auckland