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1: Bob Hawke’s Will To Be Legally Challenged By His Daughter | July 16, 2019

The daughter of Bob Hawke is reportedly mounting a legal challenge against Blanche d’Alpuget over his will, two months after his death…





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2: Eldest brother’s claim for slice of late father’s Will rejected by Court | August 5, 2017

The Judge rejected the claimant’s claim for family provision from his late father’s Will because of his “comfortable” financial position of more than $5 million , where as his siblings had “real and oppressing financial concerns”…





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3: Estate Management Terminology and Family Law | August 23, 2015

The below list of related terms are by no means exhaustive, but they are a good starting point for anyone contemplating either beginning, ending or clarifying a important relationship that either involves us directly, or involves someone we care deeply about. ..





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4: Family of Neville Wran agree to mediation over estate | August 8, 2015

Wran died in April last year (2014) aged 87 after suffering dementia. He left a fortune estimated to be worth up to $40 million, largely made up of an impressive property portfolio. This estate is at the heart of a dispute within his extended family. ..





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5: Where there’s a will, there’s a writ | May 6, 2014

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…





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6: Children Left Nothing Fighting for Darveniza Millions | March 19, 2014

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…





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7: Judge slams old boy who sued mother over estate | February 25, 2014

An old boy from The King’s School who sued his mother for a share of his grandfather’s $5.5 million estate has been castigated by a Supreme Court judge for having a ”highly developed and unhealthy sense of entitlement”…





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8: DNA orders in Family Provision Act Proceedings | October 1, 2013

However, courts have been slower to order the use of the science in other civil proceedings, for example claims against deceased estates, where testing can determine eligibility within Family Provision Act proceedings…





CLAIMS RISE: Supreme Court Justice and Queensland Law Reform Commission chair Roslyn Atkinson
9: Estates Lost as Adult Children Fight over Inheritances | April 13, 2013

ADULT children are demanding a greater share of their parents’ estates and are eating into assets to fight for more money…





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10: Declaration made where the relationship occurred from “time to time” over a long period | March 25, 2013

Application for domestic partner declaration – plaintiff and deceased knew each other for approximately 38 years – from time to time lived together in a “close personal relationship” – plaintiff married on three occasions each, apart from the last, of relatively short duration – whether plaintiff and deceased were domestic partners one of the other as at date of death or at an earlier time for a period of three years or an aggregate period of three out of four years – alternatively, whether it is in the interests of justice that a declaration be made…




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