The Victorian case of Re Tang [2017] looked at a raft of issues that arose when the deceased had assets in both Australia and China.
estate law
When inheriting from friends not family
It’s not often that a person gets the chance to inherit the estate of someone who is not a member of their family. But it does happen and has its own particular issues.
Estate equalisation by courts not so straightforward
In a 2015 court case a claim by the daughters of the deceased for an equal share of his estate was dismissed. It was taken that the daughters had been fairly treated even though their brother inherited significantly more. This sounds like a legal decision from another century but it seems that fair and equal […]
Wife who murdered husband can’t claim on estate
In the recent case of Edward v State Trustees Limited [2016] VSCA 28 a wife who killed her husband in self-defence was not allowed to receive her husband’s estate under his will. In the discussion of the facts of the case there was a history of violence inflicted on the wife during her marriage and the wife […]