Whilst this case is a little older than my usual case updates, it is by no means less interesting and, in my humble opinion, important when it comes to considering decisions in family provision matters involving disentitling conduct and estrangement. In the case of Dawson v Joyner [2011] QSC 385, the deceased was survived by…
Tag: rural succession
Duty Bound: solicitor’s duty to beneficiary of incapable testator after inter vivos transfer
It was in the context of preparing for the delivery of my recent presentation for The Tax Institute’s Death…and Taxes Symposium on the Gold Coast recently that I come to read a recent case of solicitor negligence in the context of estate planning. In the appeal decision of McFee v Reilly [2018] NSWCA 322, a…