
Author: Michele Davis
lawyer researcher educator writer


Elder Abuse = Disentitling Conduct: FPA by adult daughter dismissed with costs

Changes to decisionmaker laws to commence soon (QLD)

Family Values: successful FPA by trans woman, following estrangement & disharmony among family (VIC)

Criminally unkind: ACT passes elder abuse legislation

Today is the first day of my last week in legal practice

New audio-visual witnessing for Wills and Enduring Documents in QLD amid COVID-19

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Pandemic or Prejudice: FPA hearing vacated amid COVID-19 (ACT)

No Undue Influence + Mutual Wills: Appeal dismissed in Birch v Birch case (Qld)

Conduct that disentitles: son’s application for FPA fails (QLD)

Decision Impossible, Part 2: Appeal against disabled son’s FPA dismissed, with costs

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Fractured Relationship: abuse and estrangement in FPA, provision ordered (NSW)

Seeing is believing?: Will not seen by, or read to, deceased, upheld (VIC)

Decision Impossible: FPA by disabled son against widow, forcing sale of family home in notional estate (NSW)

Family Affair: trust and property transfers set aside on bad faith and unconscionability (QLD)

Screen Test: Court of Appeal prefers lawyer’s evidence over medical on testamentary capacity (NSW)

Duty Bound: solicitor’s duty to beneficiary of incapable testator after inter vivos transfer
