Biography
Jacinta Semaan is a Lawyer in our Wills & Estate Planning team. She specialises in estate planning, preparing applications for a grant, estate administration and preparing Deeds of Family Arrangement.
Proactive in meeting clients’ individual needs, Jacinta provides clear, tailored advice with compassion for individual circumstances. Working collaboratively, Jacinta strives to ensure that her clients feel supported, informed, empowered and heard throughout the process.
Jacinta’s clients includes:
- separated/divorced individuals
- families
- older people
- executors, administrators and beneficiaries
- solicitors as executors
- high net-worth clients
- vulnerable clients, including those with disabilities
- charities and not-for-profit organisations
- international clients
- clients with language barriers (Jacinta speaks Arabic fluently).
Her experience in legal practice, community volunteering and other leadership capacities has provided her with deep insight into the challenges clients may face, allowing her to respond with patience, empathy and sensitivity.
Jacinta is currently undertaking a Masters of Applied Law (Double Major in Wills & Estates and Estate Planning) at The College of Law.
A dedicated volunteer, Jacinta devotes time to a wide range of community activities.
Expertise
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Whether simplifying legal concepts, offering additional guidance, or creating a comfortable environment to facilitate open and effective communication, my goal is to make every client feel acknowledged and empowered throughout the process, so they can make informed decisions.”- Jacinta Semaan
- Experience
- Qualifications and Memberships
- Acting in matters involving blended families and estranged children
- Acting in estate planning and probate matters for international clients
- Cy-pres schemes
- Urgent Will preparation for terminally ill client
- Statutory Will application
- Double Degree in a Bachelor of Laws and Security Studies from Macquarie University
- Graduate Diploma of Practical Legal Training from The College of Law
- Completion of Global Leadership Program from Macquarie University
- Certificate I in Active Volunteering
- Working With Children Check
- Sub-committee member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) NSW Emerging Professionals Network
- Board Director of Maronite Care
- Secretary of the Board of Maronite Care
- STEP NSW Emerging Professionals Network sub-committee member
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