by ROBERT | Jan 30, 2025 | Trusts
CASE: Secretary, Department of Social Services v Hulett [2025] FCA 23 The case revolves around Edward Hulett and his three daughters’ arrangement to care for their aging parents. Years before Mrs Hulett’s death in 2009, the family agreed that when one...
by ROBERT | Oct 24, 2024 | Succession
The matter of Savage v Savage [2023] QSC 280 provides a significant illustration of how public policy shapes succession law, particularly through the forfeiture rule. The matter arose after Edward Erle Savage was murdered by his daughter, Gail Marie Beazleigh, in...
by ROBERT | Oct 22, 2024 | Family provision, Succession
A Queensland court case established that occasional financial support from a deceased relative, even to a family in financial hardship, does not qualify as substantial maintenance under succession law unless it constitutes the main source of support. The decision...
by ROBERT | Nov 12, 2023 | Probate, Succession
This case involved a dispute over two wills made by Mark Boatwright, who died in May 2021. Boatwright made a will in January 2018 appointing the plaintiff John Bratt as executor. In September 2020, Boatwright made another will appointing the defendant Oliver as...
by ROBERT | Nov 12, 2023 | Property, Succession, Trusts
This appeal arose from a dispute over the ownership of a property in Upper Colo, NSW that was owned by Dame Leonie Kramer after her husband’s death. The respondent, David Stone, had farmed the property under an oral share farming agreement since 1975. Stone...
