
Tag: estate litigation


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

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

Missing element: High Court orders new trial in solemn form probate proceedings; denial of procedural fairness

What is “Contemplation of marriage”: Marriage revokes Will in blended family (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)

Excluded child’s claim dismissed: 40 years of estrangement after bitter divorce (NSW)

No Will, no way?: Court refuses application for statutory Will in large estate (Qld)

Child of de facto spouse = Step-child in FPA; Decision upheld on Appeal (VIC)

Burden of secrets: Claim for secret trust within an FPA by grandchild (NSW)

Dare to Care: Close personal relationship in FPA (NSW)

Competing Relationships: Needs of De Facto vs Adult Children

Escaping the Nest: Abandoning a right to reside and FPA 15 years out of time

Worldy Wisdom: Why a pro forma will still ends up in Court
