by Reception | May 19, 2021 | Will Challenges
Life Estates And The Crisp Solution Ng v Lau; In the Estate of Ken Kui Yuen Lau [2020] NSWSC 713 Everyone deserves a second chance but sometimes second marriages and blended families can cause headaches when it comes to making sure that both your current partner and...
by Reception | May 14, 2021 | Will Challenges
The Executors Commission- Your Conduct Counts Re Estate of Badstuebner [2020] QSC 144 Agreeing to become a named executor in a will is the easy bit. The hard bit comes when you’re called upon to make good those promises you made to oversee the distribution of an...
by Reception | May 10, 2021 | Wills
Executing Your Will In A Global Pandemic Re Sheehan [2021] QSC 89 and the COVID 19 Emergency Response Act 2020 There’s nothing like a global pandemic to turn your mind to all those tasks that you’ve been putting on the back burner for years, including finally writing...
by Reception | Apr 28, 2021 | Estate Planning, Wills
Where There’s A Will Is There Always A Way? Re GEW[2020] QSC 119 & The Informal Will Letters, emails and, more recently, even text phone messages, have been held by the courts to be a valid will. But before you pull your phone out and start announcing your...
by Reception | Apr 20, 2021 | Will Challenges
The Red Envelope Re Marshall (deceased) (2020) 4 QR 321 and Testamentary Intention In 2016 Gayle Marshall was thinking about the future. She had suffered a heart attack some months before and her mortality was on her mind. She sat down and wrote the following:...
by Reception | Apr 15, 2021 | Will Challenges
Is Your Ex-Spouse Entitled To Make A Claim On Your Estate? Ryan v Harrison [2020] QSC 267 and the ex-wife who thought she could. 26 years before his death, Brian Harrison got divorced to Therese Ryan, and just like in 1000’s of other divorces before and since,...
by Reception | Mar 26, 2021 | Will Challenges
Changing Your Mind and Changing Your Will Re: Picking and the hack that doesn’t work Written by Lindsay Chan Everybody loves a life hack; a usually simple and clever tip or technique for accomplishing a task easily, and in a much shorter time. Hacks eliminate life’s...
by Reception | Mar 23, 2021 | Will Challenges
Friends Who Become Family. Rakovich v Marszalek [2020] NSWSC 589-Why good friends should make a will. Written by Lindsay Chan There’s a well known quote that says “ There are friends, there is family, and there are friends that become family.” For Horst Marszalek this...