
Tag: wills and estates lawyer brisbane


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)

Danger Zone: costs against plaintiff in FPA in small estate (NSW)

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)

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)

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)

“Probable intention”: Novel rectification case in ACT

Leaving a “note” for mum successfully appealed; “Note” = Will
