However, courts have been slower to order the use of the science in other civil proceedings, for example claims against deceased estates, where testing can determine eligibility within Family Provision Act proceedings…

SOME carers are ripping off the very people they are supposed to look after by demanding money be left to them in wills, an estate lawyer has revealed…

ADULT children are demanding a greater share of their parents’ estates and are eating into assets to fight for more money…

Application for domestic partner declaration – plaintiff and deceased knew each other for approximately 38 years – from time to time lived together in a “close personal relationship” – plaintiff married on three occasions each, apart from the last, of relatively short duration – whether plaintiff and deceased were domestic partners one of the other as at date of death or at an earlier time for a period of three years or an aggregate period of three out of four years – alternatively, whether it is in the interests of justice that a declaration be made…

As a general rule you should have your Will amended (or get a new Will drafted if amending isn’t possible) when you experience a major change in your life or a significant event…

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…