Our
Services
We work across the whole of Queensland succession law. It falls into three areas:
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Estate planning
- Wills
- Testamentary trust wills
- Mutual will agreements
- Statutory wills, where a person no longer has capacity to make a will and an application to the Court is required
- General powers of attorney
- Enduring powers of attorney
- Company powers of attorney
- Advance health directives
- Letters of wishes
- Personal succession planning and asset protection
- Business and company succession planning and asset protection
- Review of superannuation binding death benefit nominations
Deceased estate administration
- Obtaining a Grant of Probate
- Obtaining Letters of Administration
- Advice on intestacy, where a person dies without a will
- Support and advice for executors
- Support and advice for beneficiaries
- Full estate administration and distribution
- Transmission of property in a deceased estate
- Estate accounts, to manage estate assets, liabilities and distributions
- Advice on estate and non-estate assets
- Advice on interim distributions
- Applications by executors and administrators for judicial advice and directions from the Court on issues
arising in the administration of an estate
Estate disputes and litigation
- Family provision claims – for people making them, and for estates defending them
- Defending an estate against a claim
- Challenges to the validity of a will
- Disputes about testamentary capacity
- Disputes about undue influence, coercion or unconscionable conduct
- Disputes about whether a person knew and approved of their will
- Informal and home-made wills, including applications to have them recognised or set aside
- Rectifying or interpreting a will after death
- Removing or replacing an executor, and holding an executor to account
- Attorney misconduct and misuse of an enduring power of attorney
- Superannuation death benefit disputes
- Equitable interests in a deceased person’s property
- Promise based claims over property or an estate
- Trust disputes