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Wills and Estates

2 Minute Annual Legal Checkup

As we become busy with life, we often overlook events that have triggered the need to modify our legal arrangements. Below is a list of questions dealing with commonplace legal dealings for many our clients, which should take no more than a minute or two to read.  If the answer to any of the questions […]

What if you cannot find the original of a Will?

Occasionally,  a person passes away and the original of their Will cannot be located.  There could be a number of reasons why the original cannot be found – they might have kept it at home and it was thrown out by mistake, or their lawyers lost it – however at law there is a presumption […]

What if a Will is ambiguous?

In some cases, it is relatively easy to resolve the ambiguity, for example where a gift in a will fails because the subject matter of the will has been sold before the will maker died. There are however other circumstances where gifts are ambiguous, and where the consequences can be quite significant. Under section 33C […]

Home Made Wills

I was recently asked by a client if it was OK to use the “home made” wills from newsagents, and that prompted me to think of the numerous times that I have read cases where people made a will without a lawyer, and there was costly litigation as a result. We have reported on those […]