The Red Envelope Re Marshall (deceased) (2020) 4 QR 321 and Testamentary Intention In 2016 Gayle Marshall was thinking about the future. She had suffered a heart attack some months before and her mortality was on her mind. She
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Is Your Ex-Spouse Entitled To Make A Claim On Your Estate? Ryan v Harrison [2020] QSC 267 and the ex wife who thought she could.
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Is Your Ex-Spouse Entitled To Make A Claim On Your Estate? Ryan v Harrison [2020] QSC 267 and the ex-wife who thought she could. 26 years before his death, Brian Harrison got divorced to Therese Ryan, and just like in 1000’s…
Changing Your Mind and Changing Your Will. Re: Picking and the hack that doesn’t work Written by Lindsay Chan
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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…
Friends Who Become Family. Rakovich v Marszalek [2020] NSWSC 589-Why good friends should make a will.
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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…
ARE ALL YOUR CHILDREN REALLY EQUAL? The equality problem and the hotchpot clause solution to unequal distribution of your estate.
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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…
Family Provision Claims : Why They’re Important for Adult Children of Previous Relationships. Haertsch V Whiteway [2020]
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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…
We Need To Talk About Will. Birch v Birch and the fight for Fairyland.
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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…
Good Neighbours Aren’t Always Good Friends. Gibbs v Loveday & Kimyani v Sandhu -Executors who behaved badly and have paid the price.
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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…
Protecting Sophia — NSW Trustee and Guardian v Hirsch [2013] . How one woman’s desire to financially protect one cousin from another led to a Supreme Court Ruling.
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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,…
Beware of promises from little old ladies
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Years ago I had a client whose story was sad and believable. She came across as being kind-hearted and a bit naïve. She had an elderly spinster aunt who didn’t have many friends and was all alone in the world. This elderly (and…