PEOPLE keen to gain a greater understanding of estate planning and how to ensure their affairs are in order are invited to a free public seminar on May 21…

The number of will disputes reaching the Supreme Court has shot up by almost 60 per cent since 2005, with blended families, entitled grandchildren and burgeoning estate values driving up the number of claims…

With one-in-three marriages in Australia ending in divorce, it’s important for parents to consider how estate plans are impacted if their child’s relationship ends…

A multi-millionaire property investor’s son, who was left nothing in his late father’s will, has been awarded $3 million dollars from his father’s $27 million estate…

One of the fundamental characteristics of a will is that it may always be revoked. Revocation may either be voluntary or by operation of law…

Let’s take the example of who gets a man’s estate if he dies while having both a wife and a mistress. If the man dies without leaving a will and his relationship with the mistress was longer than two years, then the question of who is entitled to a share of the estate falls under Sections 123 and 125 of the NSW Succession Act 2006…

Wills, succession and family provisions provide the landscape for some of the spellbinding human dramas that unfold in the equity courts…