The dirty laundry of a wealthy Sydney family has been aired in court during a battle over the colourful 90-year-old matriarch’s multimillion-dollar fortune…

Australian taxpayers are “bound to” be hit with an inheritance tax, Chief of financial advice firm Stanford Brown, Jonathan Hoyle has said, pointing to similar policies in the UK and US…

A court has said yes today to a Brisbane woman who has been fighting for the right to have a child using her dead boyfriend’s sperm. It’s a vexed issue for some and this ruling is being described as landmark…

An elderly Chinese woman made a digital video recording of an oral statement of testamentary intentions, deliberately recorded as a “video will”, with an intention that it take effect as a will, but she did not alter her formal written Will. The Supreme Court was asked to determine the validity of this video Will. ..

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. ..

This is the case of notorious solicitor Michael Ryan, who had numerous lovers, many of them prostitutes, who have all made claims on his $8m estate as his de facto lovers, with varying degrees of success. ..

Files Stibbe Lawyers partner Dean Stibbe said he dealt with people all the time who were experiencing massive problems with their loved ones’ estates because they hadn’t made a legal will, power of attorney or other provisions…

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…

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”…

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…