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Succession & Estate Planning

Careful legal guidance for planning, protecting and administering personal and family interests. Legal support for succession, estate planning and administration matters in Kenya.

Context and priorities

Advice shaped around your objectives

Succession and estate matters often involve important family, property and financial interests. Planning and administration require careful attention to the client's wishes, ownership records, relevant legal requirements and the circumstances of beneficiaries. Advice is tailored to the matter and the documents available.

We help clients identify relevant legal questions, review the documents and arrangements involved, and consider practical next steps within the agreed scope of advice.

Areas of legal support

How we can assist

  • Estate planning and succession-related advice
  • Review of ownership and estate documentation
  • Guidance on succession and estate administration processes
  • Property and asset considerations connected with succession
  • Advice on relevant legal rights and obligations
  • Coordination of related conveyancing or dispute issues where required

Our approach

A structured approach

01

Understand

Clarify the family, asset and planning context.

02

Review

Examine relevant documents, ownership and legal requirements.

03

Plan

Consider appropriate legal arrangements and next steps.

04

Administer

Support relevant formalities and administration as instructed.

Related work

Related legal expertise

Legal matters often intersect with other areas of work. JWG can connect relevant corporate, commercial, finance, property, regulatory or dispute-related advice where appropriate to the client's instructions.

Legal advice from JWG

Clarify the legal questions before you act.

Tell us about the matter you are considering. We can discuss the circumstances and the appropriate scope of legal support.