A widow has been allowed to extract her dead husband’s sperm a day after he took his own life, following an urgent West Australian court hearing…

There are a few lessons to be learnt from high-profile family disputes, including that of Gina Rinehart, according to lawyer Bernie O’Sullivan…

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. ..

THE High Court has defined the powers of judges to divide the assets of elderly married couples forced to part when one moves into a care facility…

DEMENTIA sufferers will be given stronger legal protection from their children pursuing their estates after a High Court ruling in their favour yesterday…

Some leading doctors and ethicists are calling for uniform national laws to guarantee a dying person’s wishes, as expressed in a living will, are respected by doctors and hospitals. They say new medical technology is sometimes prolonging life unnecessarily…

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

A THIRD of Americans have cheated on their partner … about money. It’s called financial infidelity and we suspect a similar, or greater, proportion of Australians have done the same thing…

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…