Stories
What if I died without a Will? Who will take care of my family?
Nov 18, 2020
Jitoko lived in Valelevu and supported a young family. The young dockworker he died in an accident on board a shipping vessel at the Suva Wharf in 1997. Following his death, the High Court had ordered the sum of $50,000 as compensation to be paid out to Fiji Public Trustee three years later. The compensation ...
My Mother, thought ahead and wrote her Will
Nov 18, 2020
Loata lives in Suva and a beneficiary to her late mother’s estate. She and her five siblings were thankful to their late mother for thinking ahead and writing up her Will. Loata and her siblings have all benefitted from her mother’s estate, who had left each of them something. “My siblings and I are truly ...
Support a cause and someone to administer your Estate
Nov 18, 2020
Joyce was born in Trinidad and Tobago. She moved to Fiji in the late 1970s to teach at the University of the South Pacific. Joyce was never married and didn’t have any children. In 2018, Joyce sought the services of the Fiji Public Trustee to draft her final wishes in the form of a Will ...
A will won’t be able to cover all the complexities in my life
Nov 18, 2020
Charlie was a copra farmer from Savusavu. He had six children. Charlie had come into the Fiji Public Trustee Office and had his will written and appointed FPTCL as the administrators. In his will, Charlie had instructed that his properties be subdivided, and separate titles be issued to his nominated beneficiaries. Part of Charlies estate ...
