Level: Essential
CLE Units: 0

Speaker:
Nicholas Confos, Barrister, Mediation and Arbitration Chambers

Aims

This paper discusses recent decisions under the Succession Act which came into force on 1 March 2008 and the evidentiary material that should be obtained to enable the Court to make a family provision order.

The strategies that can be implemented to make a claimant have better prospects of success are also discussed.

The paper also looks at some recent decisions where the eligible person and the deceased have been estranged for many years.

The following cases are also discussed:

• Succession Act 2006
• Williamson v Williamson [2011] NSWSC 228
• Andrew v Andrew [2011] NSWSC 115
• Bourke v Kemp [2011] NSWSC 88

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