Inheritance

Results for: Inheritance

1: Millie Phillips, once Australia’s richest woman, creates chaos over her Will | November 19, 2019

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…

Catchwords: Dementia, Estate Planning, Inheritance, Inheritance, Intestacy Laws, Intestate, Legal Proceedings, Personality Disorder, Succession Act, Succession Laws, Testamentary Intention, Wills, Wills & Probate

2: How to stop your new spouse from cheating your kids out of inheritance | August 20, 2019

How would you feel if your estate went to a complete stranger, someone you’d never even met, instead of going to your children? It’s more likely than you might expect. Protecting your children’s inheritance is about good planning – and that can only happen through pragmatic awareness and recognition of what is legally possible…

Catchwords: Estate Planning, Financial Elder Abuse, Inheritance, Intestacy Laws, Joint Executors, Property Dispute, Relationship, Sole Beneficiary, Testamentary Intention, Undue Influence, Wills, Wills & Probate

3: Supreme Court rules for Colleen McCullough’s husband in Will dispute | August 8, 2018

Acclaimed Australian author Colleen McCullough left her entire estate to her husband Ric Robinson, the NSW Supreme Court has ruled at the end of a costly and bitter dispute over her multimillion-dollar estate…

Catchwords: Inheritance, Undue Influence, Wills

4: How to Protect Your Child’s Inheritance from a Future Divorce | June 20, 2018

The Selths believe their testamentary trust strategy will make it more transparent and equitable for all beneficiaries. “We had a will but it didn’t embrace everything we wanted. We knew where we wanted the money to go but we wanted to be sure the beneficiaries were our kids but that they were protected in the case of divorce.”..

Catchwords: Estate Planning, Family Trusts, Inheritance, Testamentary Trust, Wills

5: ‘It’s mine, I got it after we broke up’, (Inheritance, Divorce & Property Disputes) | January 13, 2018

In family law disputes it is a common misconception that an inheritance or other large sum received after separation will be excluded from the property pool to be divided between the parties. ..

Catchwords: Calvin & McTier [2017] FAMCAFC 125, Divorce, Financial Dispute, Holland & Holland [2017] FamCAFC 166, Inheritance, Property, Section 44 (3) of the Family Law Act, Widmann & Widmann [2017] FamCAFC 602