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WILLS AND ESTATES BOOMERANG BAGS

The plastic bag ban is looming.....
Deciding to contact a Lawyer and establish a Will can sometimes organisations, schools, museums, churches and many other Boomerang Bags has a creative, environmentally safe solution for all!
seem rather daunting for obvious reason, however it is the institutions as entities that can receive either some of your
love for our family that encourages us to ensure that our money or personal belongings. WHO is involved? WHEN?
family is taken care of and that our hard earned assets and Family pets are important components of the family unit, yet People from our local community, as well as the Global Our volunteers meet for working bees to cut, iron and sew the
possessions are passed along exactly how we want. We all have often they are omitted from the Will which is not necessarily the community. The idea started in Burleigh Heads in 2013 and bags. To find out more information about a community near you,
examples of families torn apart from the passing of a family individual’s intention. If your pet is part of your family unit, then there are now over 490 Boomerang Bags communities around or to get involved visit: http://boomerangbags.org/
member with no Will. ensure that your Will has a provision to ensure they are cared the world.
The addition of children to a family is also another great reason for properly. In some instances, arrangements can be made
to visit your Lawyer and discuss your Will. You can appoint a within the family. In other instances, a Will allows you to leave WHY?
guardian within your Will to act in the event of the death of one instructions for an individual to care for your much loved pet. If WHAT is it? Plastic never ‘goes away’. It goes into landfill where it degrades
or both parents. Your Lawyer can advise you on the best way to you don’t have anyone available, instructions can be left in your Boomerang Bags is a grassroots, community driven movement very slowly, often taking hundreds of years to do so, emitting
protect your children in this scenario. Will for an institution to care for your pet and your Lawyer can be tackling plastic pollution at its source. toxins as it degrades. It blows into waterways where it eventually
By including specific assets and possessions in a Will and naming nominated to carry out your instructions. Volunteers from all walks of life get together to make re-useable makes its way into our oceans. Here it breaks down into
the individuals who will inherit them, (the beneficiaries) you can Having an up to date will is a peace of mind that ensures
ensure that your property is passed along exactly how you want. your future is protected irrespective of the twists and turns ‘boomerang bags’ using recycled materials, as a means to ‘microplastics’ to be consumed by sea life, often causing death.
This beats the possibility of having family disagreements and in our lives. provide a sustainable alternative to plastic bags. Queensland will ban single use plastic bags from July 2018.
possible permanent damaging of family relationships. The bags create a platform to start conversations, make friends,
A Willis much more than a medium to transfer your home, The information provided in this article is to be used as a guide. A.L.F. up-cycle materials and work towards shifting society’s throw HOW can the community help?
property, business or money to your partner, children and away mentality to a more sustainable revolution of re-use – one Use our bags or other re-usable bags, buy our ‘Bought To
grandchildren. It is a legal document that allows you tremendous Lawyers cannot be held responsible for any action that readers take
flexibility and can include personal belongings like furniture, based on the information contained in this article. We encourage community, needle and thread at a time! Support’ bags or make a donation, help us make the bags, refuse
cars, paintings, antiques, books, tools, photos, videos, war readers to contact us for professional advice. Together we link hands globally to create a paradigm shift to a to use plastic bags anymore, reduce your consumption of plastic
medals, musical instruments and personal collections just to Contact A.L.F. Lawyers for advice on your Wills and Estates, more connected and conscious society. and single use items wherever possible, recycle.
name a few.
Keep in mind that the beneficiaries of your assets will also be 07 3088 6161 or email mail@alflawyers.com.au. Located at WHERE? info@boomerangbags.org
the beneficiaries of any financial debts that are associated Suite 21/357 Gympie Rd, Strathpine QLD.
with your assets. Depending on the state of the business and North of Brisbane CBD there are Boomerang Bags communities @boomerangbags
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on the outcome which should also be considered when Bribie Island, Glasshouse Mountains and many more.....
creating your Will. LA W YER S
Depending on your family situation and your beliefs, your Will
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