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The Executors Commission- Your Conduct Counts. Re Estate of Badstuebner [2020] QSC 144

The Executors Commission- Your Conduct Counts. Re Estate of Badstuebner [2020] QSC 144

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...
Executing Your Will In A Global Pandemic. Re Sheehan [2021] QSC 89 and the COVID 19 Emergency Response Act 2020

Executing Your Will In A Global Pandemic. Re Sheehan [2021] QSC 89 and the COVID 19 Emergency Response Act 2020

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...
Where There’s A Will Is There Always A Way? Re GEW[2020] QSC 119 & The Informal Will.

Where There’s A Will Is There Always A Way? Re GEW[2020] QSC 119 & The Informal Will.

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...
The Red Envelope. Re Marshall (deceased) (2020) 4 QR 321 and Testamentary Intention.

The Red Envelope. Re Marshall (deceased) (2020) 4 QR 321 and Testamentary Intention.

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: ON...
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.

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.

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,...
Changing Your Mind and Changing Your Will. Re: Picking and the hack that doesn’t work Written by Lindsay Chan

Changing Your Mind and Changing Your Will. Re: Picking and the hack that doesn’t work Written by Lindsay Chan

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...
Friends Who Become Family. Rakovich v Marszalek [2020] NSWSC 589-Why good friends should make a will.

Friends Who Become Family. Rakovich v Marszalek [2020] NSWSC 589-Why good friends should make a will.

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...
ARE ALL YOUR CHILDREN REALLY EQUAL? The equality problem and the hotchpot clause solution to unequal distribution of your estate.

ARE ALL YOUR CHILDREN REALLY EQUAL? The equality problem and the hotchpot clause solution to unequal distribution of your estate.

by Reception | Feb 23, 2021 | Will Challenges

ARE ALL YOUR CHILDREN REALLY EQUAL? The equality problem and the hotchpot clause solution to unequal distribution of your estate. Written by Lindsay Chan Despite the usual family jokes about the favourite child, when it comes to estate planning, parents will usually...
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