Minnaar Badenhorst

Minnaar Badenhorst is an associate solicitor in our leading Wills, Probate, Tax & Trusts team and primarily advises clients from our Reading office, as well as our Wokingham and Henley-on-Thames offices and remotely.

He deals with the preparation of Wills, estate and inheritance tax planning, probate and estate administration and drafting lasting powers of attorney (LPAs).

Minnaar joined Blandy & Blandy in 2024 from an established firm based in Hampshire. He has 17 years’ experience as a private client solicitor in England, following a successful career as a lawyer in South Africa.

Minnaar is a member of The Association of Lifetime Lawyers (formerly Solicitors for the Elderly), an independent, national organisation of lawyers (solicitors, barristers and legal executives) who provide specialist legal advice for older and vulnerable people, their families and carers, and a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).

Examples of recent work

• Acting for the Personal Representatives in an intestate Estate with assets in other jurisdictions.
• Advising executors on an estate where the structure of the will was such that the residence nil rate band would otherwise have been denied and making use of s144 of the Inheritance Tax Act 1984 to maximise the available allowances accordingly.
• Recently acting on behalf of the attorneys under lasting powers of attorney, for several incapacitated clients and managing their financial affairs.
• Acting on behalf of the Executors in the administration of a high value estate working closely with tax accountants and financial advisers to maximise the taxable allowances and business relief.
• Acting on behalf of the Executors in the administration of the estate over several jurisdictions in which significant giftings were made in the seven years prior to death. Working closely with a tax accountant and successfully claiming gifting being exempt from tax as regular gifts out of excess income and maximising tax relief.