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Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Examples & Explanations for Wills, Trusts, and Estates
Here is the publisher's description of this book authored by Prof. Gerry W. Beyer: A favorite classroom prep tool of successful students that is often recommended by professors, the Examples…
Law Firm Carolinas Blog
The Most Important Provisions in a Will or Living Trust Agreement
In my early years practicing estate planning, I worked in an office where routine estate planning documents were relatively concise. At the time, I believed that was the smartest and…
HEIRS & SUCCESSES
Estate of Tanner [2025] NSWSC 1078; Tanner v Tanner [2026] NSWCA 100: an earlier transfer must be brought into account
Hotchpot operates to bring a benefit received by a beneficiary during the testator’s lifetime into account when determining that beneficiary’s entitlement under the Will. The principal difficulty arises in valuing…
Estate Planning in California
Oral Contract to Make a Will
By Unknown
In 1998, husband promises wife to leave the marital condo to wife should wife pay off the outstanding mortgage on the marital condo. Wife then pays off the outstanding mortgage…
HEIRS & SUCCESSES
Freeman v Freeman [2026] NSWSC 1127: Unsustainable Family Provision Claim Dismissed
Singer v Berghouse(1994) 181 CLR 201 remains a foundational authority in Australian family provision law. Decided by the High Court on 14 September 1994, the case established the familiar two-stage…
HEIRS & SUCCESSES
WXW v KZY & Anor [2025] QSC 138: Extrinsic Evidence in Will Interpretation
In Australia, “construing a Will” is the legal process of determining the true meaning and intention of a deceased person’s Will when its language is ambiguous, unclear, or contradictory. When…
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Who Inherits If You Have No Will and No Spouse?
By Client-admin
Dying without a valid will doesn’t mean your estate goes to the state. In South Africa, it means the Intestate Succession Act 81 of 1987 takes over and distributes your…
Florida Probate & Trust Litigation Blog
Interview with a Probate Lawyer: Woodrow “Mac” Melvin, Jr.
Woodrow “Mac” Melvin, Jr. was on the winning side of In re Rosenstiel's Will, 44 Fla. Supp. 92 (Fla. 11th Cir. Ct. June 24, 1976), a nationally significant probate case…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
What happens to Dolly Parton’s estate and philanthropy?
By Teddy Groce
The future of the late singer Dolly Parton’s fortune and philanthropy efforts will be among the items to be determined after her death on August 25th, as she has no children or…
HEIRS & SUCCESSES
The Will maker did not make a free and fully informed decision: Chalik v Chalik [2025] NSWCA 136
Margaret Chalik, who died on 20 July 2021, aged 85, survived by her two adult sons, Gregory Chalik (the plaintiff) and Igor (now known as Isaac) Chalik ( the defendant),…