Family Provision Claims and Key Skills
Issues covered include: mediation of family provision claims, drafting affidavits, claims by adult children
Description
With family provision claims on the rise, leading counsel will share with you practical insights on the latest family provision cases, drafting great affidavits, mediation by a leading mediator, and much more! This is an essential program for those practising in estate disputes.
Attend and earn 3 CPD hours including:
1 hour in Legal Knowledge
2 hours in Professional Skills
This seminar was recorded in QLD on 27 August 2019
Chair: Chris Herrald, Senior Associate, Mullins Lawyers; Recommended Wills & Estates Litigation Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2018; Recommended Wills, Estates & Succession Planning Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2018
Professional Skills
2.00pm to 2.40pm: Mediation of Family Provision Claims
- Mediation: legislation and the Practice Direction
- Achieving a compromise
- Recording a compromise
- Preventing the compromise being compromised
Presented by Lee Nevison, Barrister, Chancery Barristers + Mediators; Preeminent Wills & Estates Litigation Junior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2018
2.40pm to 3.20pm: Drafting Affidavits: Practical Workshop with Case Examples
- UCPR and Practice Direction requirements
- Significant considerations when exhibiting evidence
- Drafting affidavits for applicants; with practical examples
- Drafting affidavits for respondents and executors; with practical examples
Presented by Angela Rae, Barrister, Burnett Lane Chambers
3.20pm to 3.35pm Afternoon Tea
Professional Skills
3.35pm to 4.35pm: 12 Months in Review: Family Provision Claims Case Update
Analyse significant Family Provision application decisions over the past year and identify the current trends in Queensland and interstate.
Presented by Ashleigh Poole, Special Counsel, Thynne + Macartney; Accredited Specialist in Succession Law; Recommended Estates Litigation Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2018; Recommended Wills & Estates Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2018; Recommended Wills, Estates & Succession Planning Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2018
4.35pm to 5.15pm: Claims by Adult Children
- Essential considerations to claims
- The duty to uphold the will
- Conduct disentitling
- Claims by adult sons and adult daughters
- A review of applicable case law
Presented by Joseph Jacobs, Barrister, Equity Chambers
Venue
Mercure Brisbane
Level 2, 85-87 North Quay
Brisbane 4000
QLD
Australia
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