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51: More complications from home made wills | December 3, 2012

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. ..




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52: Family Court judges can exercise discretion when couples separated by illness, old age | November 16, 2012

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…




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53: Protecting the elderly from kids | November 15, 2012

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




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54: National laws needed for Living Wills | October 18, 2012

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…




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55: Where there’s a Will, there’s a chance for wasteful litigation | April 13, 2012

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




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56: The price of financial infidelity | March 25, 2012

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…




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57: Spouses to get estates when partners leave will | March 1, 2010

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…