What families have shared about working with us

A selection of accounts from families who came to Seri Pusaka at different stages of their estate planning, and what the experience was for them.

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17+

Years of practice

340+

Families assisted

4.8

Average satisfaction (out of 5)

Qualified solicitors on the team

Client Accounts

Names and identifying details have been used with the permission of each family.

Zainal Hakim bin Ahmad

Petaling Jaya, Selangor

We came to Seri Pusaka after my father passed without a clear will, and the family had spent nearly two years in disagreement about how his assets should be divided. By that point, we were not looking for more legal documents — we were looking for someone who would listen without making the situation worse.

The Heritage Consultation gave us exactly that. We left with a written summary that set out the situation clearly and indicated the paths available. It was the first time in two years we had a document that the whole family could agree described things accurately. We have since engaged Seri Pusaka for the will drafting.

Heritage Consultation · April 2025

Lim Kah Mei

Cheras, Kuala Lumpur

I had a will drafted some years ago by a general practice, and it was done in two meetings over a week. I did not fully understand what the document said, and I was not given time to ask questions properly. When I came to Seri Pusaka to have it revised, the process was quite different.

The draft came to me in sections, with explanations I could actually read. I took three weeks between the first draft and my comments, and there was no pressure to return sooner. The finished document was one I understood and felt settled about. I did find the process took a little longer than I expected, though I accept that was partly my own pace.

Will Drafting Engagement · March 2025

Nor Faridah binti Ismail

Wangsa Maju, Kuala Lumpur

My husband and I wanted to prepare a wasiat but were uncertain about how the faraid rules would apply to some of our assets. We had spoken to two other solicitors before Seri Pusaka, and neither had been able to explain it clearly in a way that made sense for our actual situation.

Norzahra at Seri Pusaka spent a good part of the consultation explaining the distinctions, and we received a written note afterwards that we could read at our own pace. The wasiat was prepared with care, and she was patient when we had further questions after seeing the first draft.

Will & Wasiat Drafting Engagement · April 2025

Rajan Vijayakumar

Damansara, Selangor

We enrolled in the Generational Estate Programme after trying, unsuccessfully, to have a family discussion about our estate for almost a year. The estate map was the thing that finally gave us a shared document to talk about. Before that, every conversation started from a different set of assumptions. We are still in the programme, but the early phases have already moved us further than we managed on our own.

Generational Estate Programme · ongoing since February 2025

Siti Hamidah binti Taha

Ampang, Kuala Lumpur

I came for a Heritage Consultation after my mother expressed her wishes clearly but had no document to support them. The consultation was straightforward — I brought some property documents and a rough note of what she wanted, and we had a calm discussion. The written summary was clear and helped me explain to my siblings what the options were. I had expected to feel pressured to start a full engagement immediately; that did not happen.

Heritage Consultation · May 2025

Wong Chee Keong

Setapak, Kuala Lumpur

My parents have assets in three different categories — a family property, some shares from my father's business, and accounts held in different names. Lim Mei Shan was the first solicitor who sat down and went through each category separately and explained how each one would need to be handled in the estate. The will she drafted for my father was the most clearly structured document he had seen on his own affairs in years.

Will Drafting Engagement · March 2025

Three Engagements in Detail

A closer account of how three family engagements developed, from first contact to conclusion.

A family reconsidering an existing will after a second marriage

The Situation

A gentleman in his early sixties had a will prepared during his first marriage. He had since remarried and had a child from his second marriage. The existing will named beneficiaries from the first marriage only, and he was uncertain whether it was still valid and how to approach revising it without causing family difficulty.

What We Did

We began with a Heritage Consultation to review the existing will and map out what had changed. We prepared a written note on the legal position — including the effect of his second marriage on the existing will under Malaysian civil law. He then engaged us for a full will revision, which took nine weeks, with two rounds of family review built into the schedule.

The Outcome

A revised will that reflected his current family situation and that he was able to explain clearly to both sets of beneficiaries. The engagement included a letter of wishes that he could update separately without redrafting the will itself. He described the written estate note from the Heritage Consultation as the most useful single document he had received from a lawyer.

"The note after the first consultation said everything I had been trying to explain to my family for three years. Having it in writing made the subsequent conversations much easier."

A family with multi-state assets and a mixed estate

The Situation

A family with property in both Kuala Lumpur and Johor, business shares, and a mixed estate — some assets in the husband's name, some in joint names, and some in a company in which both spouses held shares. Both spouses wanted their wishes documented, and they also wanted to understand what would happen if one of them died before the other.

What We Did

We enrolled the family in the Generational Estate Programme. The estate map took three weeks to prepare and covered each asset separately, noting the legal form of ownership, the applicable law, and the questions that would need to be resolved before any instrument could be finalised. We presented the map at a family conference attended by both spouses and one of their adult children.

The Outcome

The programme is ongoing. At the twelve-month stage, wills for both spouses have been finalised, the joint ownership of one property has been restructured, and the company shareholding matter has been referred to a corporate solicitor with our written briefing note in hand. The quarterly checkpoints have kept the family's attention on the remaining items without creating pressure to resolve everything at once.

"The estate map was the first time we had looked at all our assets together in one place. It was uncomfortable to see how little we had actually settled, but it was the right thing to see."

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