- Consultant
- Estate Planning & Special Disability Trusts
Biography
Stephen Booth is a Consultant to Coleman Greig, focusing on Estate Planning.
He has a particular interest in assisting families who have loved ones with intellectual disabilities or mental illness to ensure they have appropriate plans in place for the future.
Having worked with parents and carers in this area since 1983, Stephen has developed a profound respect for how parents and carers handle the many challenges they and their families face.
Having practised as a lawyer since 1982, Stephen has worked across a range of legal areas including litigation and competition and trade practices law, with a particular focus on employment law. Stephen joined Coleman Greig in 1987 and established Coleman Greig’s Employment Law & Business Migration Team in 1994, and was Team Leader till 2020, when he retired from full-time practice as a Principal Lawyer.
Stephen was recognised as Most Outstanding Legal Practitioner in Special Disability Trusts in Australia in 2022 in the 2022 Enablement Awards.
Expertise
People like us
“I have developed a profound respect for how parents and carers handle the many challenges that they and their families face and am passionate about making sure they can properly plan for the future” - Stephen Booth
- Experience
- Qualifications and Memberships
- Wills and Estate Planning
- Trusts
- Special Disability Trusts, dealing with intellectual disability or mental health issues. Advising families and carers on structures that will protect and promote the interests of their family members or friends with a disability or mental illness and optimise the management of their inheritance and other benefits, including social security entitlements.
- Author of plain English language guides for the Federal Government in estate planning and Special Disability Trusts to assist people with disabilities and their families – Planning for the Future, and, Getting Things Sorted (2006).
- Author of When I’m Gone, a guide to will-making for parents of children with an intellectual disability (1999).
Bachelor of Economics BEc
Bachelor of Laws LLB
Master of Laws LLM
Law Society of NSW
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