A wealthy lawyer who tried to use “squatter’s rights” to claim a pair of abandoned Sydney homes has now emerged at the centre of a bizarre legal battle for a $20m fortune…

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

Former spouse, who engaged in a relentless campaign of false allegations of physical and sexual abuse after the divorce, makes claim on late ex-husband’s substantial estate 25 years after separation. Did she get anything?..

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”…

The parents of a severely disabled NSW boy have lost their $10 million damages case against an IVF specialist who failed to properly warn them of the likelihood their son would inherit a rare blood clotting condition…

A 17-year-old Jehovah’s Witness suffering from a lethal form of blood cancer and refusing treatment threatened to rip the IV needle out of his arm if doctors attempted a blood transfusion…

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. ..

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

A WOMAN fighting to have her dead husband’s baby has launched a new court battle to take his frozen sperm outside NSW for use in IVF treatment…