
Tag: succession law


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

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

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

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

Decisions, Decisions: ‘bad faith’ SMSF Trustee discretion decision set aside, Trustee removed

Catch and Release: Court considers when s33Z applies to a ‘purported’ Will (Qld)

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)

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

“Probable intention”: Novel rectification case in ACT

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)

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

Timing is everything: FPA out of time by 10 days allowed on appeal

“There is no one alive who is you-er than you!” – Imposter Testator and the Supreme Court
