Wording for your Will
To include a gift to Oxfam Australia in your Will, the wording below is most effective. Please take this wording with you when you visit your solicitor.
“I give, devise and bequeath, free of all duties and taxes, *____________________________________ to Oxfam Australia (ABN 18 055 208 636) of 355 William St West Melbourne VIC 3003 for its general purposes. An authorised receipt from Oxfam Australia will be a sufficient discharge for the executor(s) or trustee without seeing to the final distribution of the funds.”
*Insert one of the following:
- the whole (or …%) of the residue of my estate
- the whole (or …%) of my estate
- the sum of $ (amount)
- (Details of a particular asset, such as shares or property.)
