Blameworthiness in ordering costs for an estate dispute
Kerr v Kerr & Anor QSC 323 McMeekin J The deceased died on 15 April 2017, on the same…...
Category: Estates
Statutory will following an acquired brain injury
CDG v John Siganto as Litigation Guardian for BJG & Ors QSC 11 McMeekin J The application, by the…...
Words & scheme of a Will – critical where meaningless words are used
The Public Trustee of Queensland v Neary & Ors QSC 9 Neil Jones, the testator, died in 2002 before…...
Family Provision Application: no compelling explanation for the delay & prejudice
Kay & Another v Kreis QSC 151 Holmes CJ The applicants sought the Courts’ discretion to permit the applicants…...
Mirror wills not enough to give effect to testators’ intentions
Rose v Tomkins & Ors QCA 157 Morrison and Philippides JJA and Flanagan J The testatrix, Ms Julia Mary…...
Prickly statutory will for disabled child compensated millions
A Limited v J NSWSC 736 A Ltd v J (No 2) NSWSC 896 A Ltd v J…...
Probate: initial shortcomings of executor insufficient to warrant removal
Budulica v Budulica QSC 60 Mullins J The applicant sought, inter alia, removal of the respondent as the executor…...
Intestate estate across two countries – conflict of laws over next of kin
In the matter of the Public Trustee of Queensland as Administrator of the estate of KH, deceased QSC 48…...
Children’s hospital bequest applied cy-près
Hicks v Mater Misericordiae Ltd QSC 38 Douglas J The deceased left her estate to the “Medical Superintendent for…...
Setting aside grant of probate for mistake of fact or not
Farrell v Boston QSC 278 Holmes CJ The application concerned whether a grant of probate obtained by the respondent…...