SMSFs and member capacity: How to best protect and serve your clients (and yourself)

National Conference 2023

This session aims to provide practical tools and concrete strategies to deal with member capability issues, in particular:

  • How practitioners should assess and document a client’s capacity 
  • Protecting yourself from possible professional negligence issues
  • Steps to protect a client’s super when cognitive decline occurs
  • What paperwork (e.g., enduring power of attorney, resolutions, etc.) is needed.

The contents of this resource are taken to be correct at the time of publication.

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