Category: cases
A blog about succession, trust and elder law cases across Australia
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
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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
