Category: Estates
Pandemic or Prejudice: FPA hearing vacated amid COVID-19 (ACT)
Conduct that disentitles: son’s application for FPA fails (QLD)
Decision Impossible, Part 2: Appeal against disabled son’s FPA dismissed, with costs
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)
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
Danger Zone: costs against plaintiff in FPA in small estate (NSW)
Catch and Release: Court considers when s33Z applies to a ‘purported’ Will (Qld)
Renewable Power: Court permits Attorney to renew superannuation nomination (QLD)
Missing element: High Court orders new trial in solemn form probate proceedings; denial of procedural fairness
Wife support: FPA by widow dismissed with costs (NSW)
FPA 7 years out of time: Allowed on Appeal (WA)
“Divorced from reality”: Appeal allowed in former spouse FPA claim (NSW)
Selfless surrender: defacto partner applies for Statutory Will to benefit mother and sisters (NSW)
The Unsent Text Message Will: Is it really that simple? No – it’s really not! (QLD)
Excluded child’s claim dismissed: 40 years of estrangement after bitter divorce (NSW)
