Dare to Care: Close personal relationship in FPA (NSW)

Many people would have a different view of exactly what a “close personal relationship” may look like. In New South Wales Family Provision law, their collection of people who may make a claim on an estate further further provision is much wider than that of Queensland.  Under section 57(1)(f) of the Succession Act 2006 (NSW),…

FPA x2: Grandson vs Daughter – Close Personal Relationship

  This month, the Supreme Court of New South Wales, determined a family provision claim by a self-sufficient adult daughter and an adult grandson. In the case of Re Filomena Rodi, deceased [2016] NSWSC 1696, the deceased was survived by four children, 2 daughters and 2 sons, and had left her estate to them equally….