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…

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…

At a hearing on 31 August 2012, the question for the New South Wales Supreme Court was whether a handwritten document was the Will of the deceased. ..

SPOUSES will automatically inherit the estates of their partners when they do not leave a will, under new laws that come into force in NSW today…