This case is an appeal regarding a Will bequeathing a house as a gift to a friend. On the face of it, the clause was straight forward: “I give my motor vehicle, my household chattels and my principal place of residence at my death to my friend…” However, a Will takes effect as if it […]
This week we received an e-mail from a lady whose step-son has served a Family Provision claim on her and his half-brother, his father having made no provision for him at all in his Will. We sent her back an e-mail seeking the relevant information, because the step-son has to prove both need and that
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I saw an executor of an estate yesterday. He was doing his probate application himself. He received a requisition from the Probate Registry of the Supreme Court because the Will stated that “the documents in a folder entitled Will on the C Drive of my computer form part of my Will”. In that directory were
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I saw a couple of sisters for some advice about obtaining probate or alternatively, letters of administration. Their late father told them that he had made one of them his executor, but as yet, they have not found the recent will. They might be left with an older will which appointed his wife as executor,
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Irene and Jarred were busy over the last couple of days taking instructions from clients and preparing wills as part of a fund-raiser for the Red Cross. We are also working on a couple of not-very-straight forward probate applications. One is for a gentleman who was from Lithuania who died leaving no family in Australia.
We saw 2 clients two weeks ago to prepare some wills. Both were divorced some 20 years ago. Both were unaware that the wills that they executed early in their marriages and which left everything to their ex-husbands were still valid! The Wills Act 1970 was only amended such that the end of a marriage
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Yesterday Jarred and Irene spent half a day each interviewing clients as part of a fund raiser for the Red Cross. The clients paid the Red Cross $75.00. Jarred and Irene interviewed the clients and are now busy preparing the wills. Jarred sent me a couple at 9.30pm last night to settle! Michael Paterson &
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We are working on a set of documents for a proposed development: A trust deed making it clear that the trustees are purchasing the land on trust for the beneficiaries, one of whom will own one strata unit and the other the rest; The wording for the contract of sale; Loan agreement from the mother/mother-in-law
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