![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:...
![Is Your Ex-Spouse Entitled To Make A Claim On Your Estate? Ryan v Harrison [2020] QSC 267 and the ex wife who thought she could.](https://mitchellsol.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Is-Your-Ex-Spouse-Entitled-To-Make-A-Claim-On-Your-Estate-Mitchells-Solicitors-1080x675.png)
by Reception | Apr 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
Is Your Ex-Spouse Entitled To Make A Claim On Your Estate? Ryan v Harrison [2020] QSC 267 and the ex-wife who thought she could. 26 years before his death, Brian Harrison got divorced to Therese Ryan, and just like in 1000’s of other divorces before and since,...
by Reception | Mar 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Changing Your Mind and Changing Your Will Re: Picking and the hack that doesn’t work Written by Lindsay Chan Everybody loves a life hack; a usually simple and clever tip or technique for accomplishing a task easily, and in a much shorter time. Hacks eliminate life’s...
![Friends Who Become Family. Rakovich v Marszalek [2020] NSWSC 589-Why good friends should make a will.](https://mitchellsol.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Rakovich-v-Marszalek-2020-NSWSC-589-Why-good-friends-should-make-a-will.png)
by Reception | Mar 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
Friends Who Become Family. Rakovich v Marszalek [2020] NSWSC 589-Why good friends should make a will. Written by Lindsay Chan There’s a well known quote that says “ There are friends, there is family, and there are friends that become family.” For Horst Marszalek this...
by Reception | Feb 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
ARE ALL YOUR CHILDREN REALLY EQUAL? The equality problem and the hotchpot clause solution to unequal distribution of your estate. Written by Lindsay Chan Despite the usual family jokes about the favourite child, when it comes to estate planning, parents will usually...
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by Reception | Feb 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
Family Provision Claims : Why They’re Important for Adult Children of Previous Relationships. Haertsch V Whiteway [2020] If you’re an adult child from a previous marriage then chances are you’ve faced a number of dilemmas over the years; who to spend the holidays...
by Reception | Feb 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
We Need To Talk About Will. Birch v Birch and the fight for Fairyland. Written by Lindsay Chan There are things that people don’t like to talk about. In an age where we constantly overshare and our personal lives are uploaded to social media for even strangers to...
by Reception | Feb 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
There’s an old Chinese proverb that says a good neighbour is a priceless treasure, a saying that Anita Border took to heart when it came to deciding who was to be the executor of her will. David Loveday was not only described by her as a trusted neighbour but he was...
by Reception | Jan 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
Last year I wrote about the law surrounding Divorce if a couple has been married for less than two years. What about if a couple marries and then, very soon after, the relationship abruptly ends and they want to annul the marriage? Once again, celebrities have gone...
