Wills and Estates Disputes
Issues covered include: Informal wills, Succession, Beneficiaries, Testators, Recent cases, Superannuation, Succession Law and Family Law, contested Probate, Undue Influence, Claims for adult children.
Description
What matters might come crashing through your door at any moment? A contested probate? A prickly matter involving a convoluted web of family law and succession law issues? A muddled question of jurisdiction? A contentious capacity or undue influence dispute? Any one of these issues could demand your immediate and urgent attention, so be prepared to handle all of them, and more, through expert guidance from leaders in the field.
Attend and earn 4 points in Competency Area 4: Substantive Law
This seminar was recorded in WA on 6 March 2019
Chair: Lee-Ann Cartoon, Principal, Succession Solutions Perth
9.00am to 10.00am: Recent Cases and Developments in Succession Law
- Solicitors and their responsibilities
- Testators, their capacity and their responsibilities
- Beneficiaries and their entitlements
- Anticipating claims, in WA and elsewhere
- Superannuation
Presented by John Butler, Principal, Butlers Lawyers & Notaries, Recommended Wills & Estates Litigation Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2017
10.00am to 11.00am: Succession Law and Family Law: Intersection or Roundabout? Tips for Drivers
- Bases of entitlements
- Sequencing of claims
- Jurisdictional considerations
- Availability and effect of agreements
Presented by Heinrich Moser, Barrister, Arbitrator and Mediator
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea
11.15am to 12.15pm: Contested Probate, Suspicious Circumstances and Undue Influence
- The essentials of solemn form proceedings
- Raising suspicious circumstances
- Elements of proof generally
- Pleading and proving undue influence
Presented by Robert Nash, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
12.15pm to 1.15pm: Succession Law: Disparate Judicial Approaches?
- Informal wills: a more relaxed judicial approach?
- Family provision claims for adult children: a more restricted judicial approach?
Presented by Peter MacMillan, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers