Changing Your Mind and Changing Your Will Re: Picking and the hack that doesn’t work Written by Lindsay Chan Everybody loves a life hack; a usually simple and clever tip or technique for accomplishing a task easily, and in a much shorter time. Hacks eliminate life’s frustrations and free up more time to do the […]…

Friends Who Become Family. Rakovich v Marszalek [2020] NSWSC 589-Why good friends should make a will. Written by Lindsay Chan There’s a well known quote that says “ There are friends, there is family, and there are friends that become family.” For Horst Marszalek this could not have been truer. Horst was a longtime bachelor, […]…

ARE ALL YOUR CHILDREN REALLY EQUAL? The equality problem and the hotchpot clause solution to unequal distribution of your estate. Written by Lindsay Chan Despite the usual family jokes about the favourite child, when it comes to estate planning, parents will usually go to great lengths to ensure all their children are treated equally in […]…

Family Provision Claims: Why They’re Important for Adult Children of Previous Relationships. Haertsch V Whiteway [2020] If you’re an adult child from a previous marriage then chances are you’ve faced a number of dilemmas over the years; who to spend the holidays with, who sits where at the wedding and how to become part of […]…

We Need To Talk About Will. Birch v Birch and the fight for Fairyland. Written by Lindsay Chan There are things that people don’t like to talk about. In an age where we constantly  overshare and our personal lives are uploaded to social media for even strangers to see, talking about money in families is one […]…

There’s an old Chinese proverb that says a good neighbour is a priceless treasure, a saying that Anita Border took to heart when it came to deciding who was to be the executor of her will. David Loveday was not only described by her as a trusted neighbour but he was also the partner of […]…

Martha Terre- Blanche had witnessed far more injustice in her 82 years than others and sought to remember those who had made those unbearable situations more bearable when she sat down to write her will. Born in 1924 in Greece, an only child, both her parents were killed in a Nazi concentration camp. Martha fought […]…