Bequests and Estate management
Leaving a Gift in a Will to The Lost Dogs’ Home is a wonderful and compassionate thing for someone to do, and it will make a real difference to the lives of lost and abandoned dogs and cats in the future.
On this page solicitors and executors can find useful information about creating Wills and administering estates for clients who wish to leave a gift in their Will to The Lost Dogs’ Home. Including:
- Correct wording for Wills
- How to notify The Lost Dogs’ Home about being a beneficiary of an estate
- How you can support charitable bequests
- Downloadable resources for solicitors and executors.
Suggested wording for Will
Here is our suggested wording for including The Lost Dogs’ Home in your client’s Will:
“I give to The Lost Dogs’ Home, (ABN 84 004 789 726) of 2 Gracie Street, North Melbourne, Victoria 3051 a gift of (insert your choice of a figure) percent share of my residuary estate for its general purposes.”
If a client wants their gift to be used for a specific purpose or applied to a certain area of our work, we would appreciate discussing this with them in advance to ensure that, when the time comes, we can properly accommodate their final wishes.
Please let us know about their wishes and values
When it is time to administer an estate in which a gift has been left to The Lost Dogs’ Home, we would appreciate it if you or your solicitor could assist us in the following ways:
1. Please notify us about the gift in the Will as soon as possible
We ask that you or your solicitor provide us with a copy of the Will or Grant of Probate for the estate as this allows us to properly identify the Will-writer and also identify any special wishes or restrictions on how we use their gift.
2. Tell us more about the wishes of the Will-writer
Please share as much information as possible about the Will-writer’s wishes at the time you notify us about their gift. We would also like to have an opportunity to thank any remaining family or friends of the Will-writer and make sure we can appropriately honour their memory.
These actions can allow us to respect a Will-writer’s final wishes, honour their memory and maximise the impact of their final donation.
One quick and easy way for you to let us know all about an estate and the Will-writer is to complete this simple online informaton form which will be sent to the Gifts in Wills Team.
Please note that any information you provide to us will always be treated in the strictest of confidence.
The Lost Dogs’ Home is honoured to be trusted with your information and we truly respect your privacy.
To learn more about how The Lost Dogs’ Home is committed to protecting your privacy, please read our Privacy Policy here.
Contact us
If you’d prefer to speak directly with someone in our team about helping a client include a gift in their Will or the administration of their estate, please contact Ross in our friendly Gifts in Wills Team on (03) 8379 4496 or email him with any questions you might have at wills@dogshome.com