If a person has no will then the intestacy laws will apply. These laws will generally mean the assets pass to the spouse and/or the children. If...
Legal Tip 351: Defacto Relationships, Death and Intestacy It is very straight forward to work out if a person is married or not because...
A person’s will cannot direct what the trustee of a superfund does with a persons superannuation benefits upon their death. But there is a chance...
Some people have no family, no relatives at all. No parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren or aunties or uncles etc. If such a person were...
When people get married, they remain married until a divorce is finalised. Without the divorce they are still spouses even if they don’t live...
Sometimes a will might be invalid which is only found out after the testator carks it. A will can be invalid for any number of reasons. What...
Imagine this: Homer dies in the kitchen and Marge finds his will. She reads it while waiting for the ambulance and finds that he has left a...
I was granted Letters of Administration and have the very last transfer forms to complete in relation to units in a managed fund. When I did the...
Dying Intestate: Leaving a Spouse with Children not of that Spouse Brady Bunch situation. What actually happens if a person dies without a...
Estates – when person thought to be dead is found alive When someone dies their estate passes according to their will on the intestacy laws....
What would happen if A left everything in his will be B and B then killed A. Could B inherit A's estate? Nope. This is an old law as children...
CGT on Death and the Passing of Property Generally when a person dies and passes their property on to a beneficiary the transfer of title does...
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