by Reception | Jul 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
WILLS & BEER Where you should and shouldn’t record your will-RE: Olive BSC 2171/20). Many a brilliant business idea has been written on the back of a beer coaster, just ask Richard Branson who said “The best ideas don’t always need to have detailed financial...
by Reception | Jul 14, 2021 | Estate Planning
Want To Save Money On Your Will? The hidden lesson in Re: Demowbray and how saving money is easier than you think when it comes to sorting your estate. The formal requirements for a will are a bit old school for 2021: A will must be in writing It must be signed by the...
![How To Protect Your Estate From The Ones Who Have Hurt You The Most. Re Estate Luce; Turch v Tripolone [2020] NSWSC 117](https://mitchellsol.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/How-To-Protect-Your-Estate-From-The-Ones-Who-Have-Hurt-You-The-Most_graphic-1080x675.png)
by Reception | Jun 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
How To Protect Your Estate From The Ones Who Have Hurt You The Most Re Estate Luce; Turch v Tripolone [2020] NSWSC 117 You can choose your friends but you can’t choose your family and there’s family who cause so much heartache that the only option left is complete...
![Executor Disputes. Re: Franks [2021] QCS 134 and the remedies available for executors who just can’t agree.](https://mitchellsol.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Executor-Disputes_graphic-1080x675.png)
by Reception | Jun 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
Executor Disputes Re: Franks [2021] QCS 134 and the remedies available for executors who just can’t agree. For hundreds of years we’ve been finding ways of settling an argument. Jousting, duals, boxing, and less physical remedies such as mediation and therapy...
by Reception | Jun 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
TWO WILLS TOO MANY RE: Perry 2021 QSC97. How to deal with overseas assets the right way. Overseas assets. They can cost you a lot less to secure, provide you with a lot more profit but unfortunately can give you a headache when it comes to considering how you’re...
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by Reception | May 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
Life Estates And The Crisp Solution Ng v Lau; In the Estate of Ken Kui Yuen Lau [2020] NSWSC 713 Everyone deserves a second chance but sometimes second marriages and blended families can cause headaches when it comes to making sure that both your current partner and...
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by Reception | May 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
The Executors Commission- Your Conduct Counts. Re Estate of Badstuebner [2020] QSC 144 Agreeing to become a named executor in a will is the easy bit. The hard bit comes when you’re called upon to make good those promises you made to oversee the distribution of an...
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by Reception | May 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Executing Your Will In A Global Pandemic Re Sheehan [2021] QSC 89 and the COVID 19 Emergency Response Act 2020 There’s nothing like a global pandemic to turn your mind to all those tasks that you’ve been putting on the back burner for years, including finally writing...
![Where There’s A Will Is There Always A Way? Re GEW[2020] QSC 119 & The Informal Will.](https://mitchellsol.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Where-There’s-A-Will-Is-There-Always-A-Way-1080x675.png)
by Reception | Apr 28, 2021 | Estate Planning
Where There’s A Will Is There Always A Way? Re GEW[2020] QSC 119 & The Informal Will Letters, emails and, more recently, even text phone messages, have been held by the courts to be a valid will. But before you pull your phone out and start announcing your...
by Reception | Apr 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
The Red Envelope Re Marshall (deceased) (2020) 4 QR 321 and Testamentary Intention In 2016 Gayle Marshall was thinking about the future. She had suffered a heart attack some months before and her mortality was on her mind. She sat down and wrote the following: ON...
