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There is often confusion about what happens to (Queensland) estate assets where a couple has died more or less at the same time. Depending on what the wills say, the position is clarified under Queensland’s Succession Act (“the Act”) quite nicely, though as usual the devil is in the detail. By section 65 of the […]

In the recent decision of Re Dohle [2022] QSC 4 the Queensland Supreme Court considered the question of sufficient capacity to make a will. It is settled law that in order to have sufficient capacity to make a will, a will maker must: (a) understand the nature of the act of making a will and […]

On 21 December, 2021 a Queensland Adjudicator made orders restraining an owner of a unit from smoking on her balcony, and regulating her when smoking inside her unit. While previously most complaints concerning smoking in bodies corporate have been considered in the context of the law of nuisance, in this case it was considered in […]

Significant changes are being made to the REIQ Houses & Residential Land (17th Edition) and Residential Lots in a Community Titles Scheme (13th Edition) Contracts, with the new contracts to be released later in January 2022. The changes are intended in part to deal with problems that have arisen due to financiers being unable to […]