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…

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”…

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…

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…

SOME carers are ripping off the very people they are supposed to look after by demanding money be left to them in wills, an estate lawyer has revealed…

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

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…

As a general rule you should have your Will amended (or get a new Will drafted if amending isn’t possible) when you experience a major change in your life or a significant event…

There is a tension between the right of a Will-maker to choose who will benefit from his or her estate and the frequent expectation by adult children that they will be the primary beneficiaries of their parent’s estate. ..