Cancer Council Victoria has launched a Supreme Court bid to get its hands on a dead woman’s medical records, to establish whether it has a claim to $12 million left to the organisation in her previous will…

In 2012 Justice Garry Foster was asked to declare a marriage between a dementia-affected grandfather and his lover and former cleaner void. In such a rare case, he had to consider whether the grandfather was mentally capable of understanding the effect and nature of marriage…

It was an autumn wedding. He was 78, about to move into a nursing home and suffering from dementia. She was his 49-year-old former cleaner.
Weeks earlier, she had accompanied her fiance to his solicitor to change his will to leave her everything. But the course of true love never did run smooth, and the groom’s family challenged the marriage in the Family Court.
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The justice system is unprepared to deal with aggressive behaviour by sufferers, writes Paul Bibby…

The Tasmanian Greens leader has welcomed a report by non-profit group that recommends state governments immediately legislate to permit and regulate voluntary euthanasia…

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…