The Successor Director Solution – Single Company plus upgrade

About Product

Provides for a Successor Director where a Director no longer wants to be a director due to divorce, is incapacitated, dies or is otherwise unable to carry out their duties as a director.

► $229.00 (inc GST) - OR provided under your unlimited membership (exc ASIC fee)

► The master document has been signed off by Abbott & Mourly and is congruent with Australian law.

The continuity of a business or investment will depend entirely on what happens to a sole director and sole shareholder of a company. Equally a person or a family’s investment in a trust or company may be jeopardised where there is no representation on the Board of the corporate trustee or company. A Successor Director may be inserted as a director in the event of a director due to divorce, is incapacitated, dies or is otherwise unable to carry out their duties as a director. The LightYear Docs Successor Director Solution provides for a constitution update as well as binding resolutions to appoint a Successor Director in the event of one of these circumstances occurring.

• Easy upgrade process
• Flexible and matches the requirements of the Corporations Act 2001
• Provides flexibility in terms of appointing a chair
• One director – one vote rule
• The directors acting as a Board can conduct any legal business both in Australia and overseas
• Several classes of share and redeemable preference share offerings

Frequently Asked Legal Questions

Share Class Changes

ASIC Guidelines on Successor Directors

Where the sole director is also the sole shareholder, however, the risk of uncertainty is much greater. Section 201F of the Corporations Act 2001 does provide that, in the event of the death of a single member/director of a proprietary company, the executor or other personal representative appointed to administer the deceased’s estate may appoint a new director to the company. The director has all the powers, rights and duties of the deceased director and can keep the company running until shares are transferred to beneficiaries who may then appoint new directors if they wish.

How long does this document take to assemble?

Depending on the complexity of the data, this document should take approximately 15-30 secs to assemble. If you experience timing outside of this please contact Support via the Surge app, alternatively please read this article for troubleshooting tips https://info.lightyeardocs.com.au/supportcentre/troubleshooting-longer-assembly-times-timeouts .

Is this document a legal document?

All master documents have been signed off by Abbott & Mourly lawyers. Tony Anamourlis of Abbott & Mourly advises that “at no time, due to inbuilt legal protection and security measures can a user change or amend a document on the LightYear Docs platform that has been signed off by a practicing solicitor. To do so would result in the user drafting a document of a legal nature and engaging in the provision of legal services. In addition, it would be a breach of copyright. In our opinion when completing the form fields through the LightYear Docs platform, users and their employees are merely carrying out an administrative task which is not the provision of legal advice.”

However in some complex areas such as the insertion of a varied range of client instructions into a Will or other such documents the user must be mindful of the extent to which a document is being drafted by the user rather than merely the administrative task of completing a form where the relevant fields are inserted into the reviewed and signed  legal document provided by Abbott & Mourly.

The above advice is born out of numerous cases dating back to Re Sanderson, Ex parte Law Institute of Victoria [1927] VLR 394, 397 where the Court held:

“if a person does a thing usually done by a solicitor, and does it in such a way as to lead to the reasonable inference that he is a solicitor – if he combines professing to be a solicitor with action usually taken by a solicitor – I think he then does act as a solicitor.”

Likewise in ACCC v Murray (2002) 121 FCR 428, 448 where Murray was building a franchise business that involved the legal writing and drafting of Wills from scratch based on the client’s personal circumstances.  The Court held that this process was legal work.

Is the document easy to read?

All LightYear Docs products are written in plain English and assessed for readability. If at any time you come across any errors, please contact support@lightyeardocs.com.au.