Private Client and Wealth
- Immigration
- Wills & Probate
- Trusts & Estate Planning
- Private Foundations
Chancellors Chambers provides legal advice, guidance, and assistance in all immigration matters involving work permits, the registration of foreign acquisition of land in The Bahamas, permanent residency, annual permits, and other investment and business projects in The Bahamas.
The Firm also provides legal advice and assistance in preparation and establishment of fixed, discretionary, and purpose trusts for local and international private and institutional clients. Chancellors Chambers also assists clients in the establishment, administration, strategy, operation, and compliance of common-law foundations for charitable, estate planning, and business purposes, under the Foundations Act, 2004.
Within the firm, Chancellors Chambers has the experience and expertise to provide sound legal advice on individual and philanthropic estate-planning issues affecting both local and international clients. This expertise involves consultation on and the vetting and drafting of wills, codicils, and other testamentary documents, advice on the inheritance laws of The Bahamas under the Inheritance Act, 2002, and the facilitation of important tax planning advice and assistance by international professional tax planners and legal practitioners, where applicable.
The Firm may also assist the client with contentious and non-contentious probate matters, letters of administration, the resealing of foreign wills, the registration of citations and caveats, and general probate searches.