Are Online Wills, Do-It-Yourself (DIY) or Home-Made Will Kits Legal? More people are turning to low-cost estate planning tools, such as DIY kits, home-made Wills or online Will services, but there’s a catch. Although these options are legally recognised in Australia, they can introduce a host of complications that shouldn’t be underestimated. Poor drafting, procedural […]
Are you eligible to make a family provision claim against a deceased estate? Has a family member died without providing adequate provision? Here we explain Family Provision Claims under the Succession Act 2023 (SA) which replaces the Inheritance (Family Provision) Act 1972 (SA). Download our brochure here.
The Great Vanishing Act: applications for leave to swear a death To quote the time-travelling WW2 nurse Claire Beauchamp Randall Fraser from the genre-mashing book and television series Outlander, “People disappear all the time. Young girls run away from home. Children stray from their parents and are never seen again. Housewives take the grocery money […]
