Family Provision ClaimsSA
This comprehensive and practical legal publication provides complete coverage of family provision claims in South Australia, when acting for either the claimant or the estate.
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Overview
This comprehensive and practical legal publication provides complete coverage of family provision claims in South Australia, when acting for either the claimant or the estate.
The guide provides detailed and easy-to-follow commentary on the three-stage process applicable to family provision claims, allowing the practitioner to provide accurate initial advice and conduct a matter from negotiation through to settlement or hearing.
Practical commentary and authorities on key issues have also been provided. These have been prepared by lawyers with significant experience of estate law in South Australia.
Precedents in this publication include:
- Suite of letters to the client and other relevant parties;
- Offers of settlement;
- Deed of settlement of a family provision claim;
- Deed of family arrangement;
- Brief to counsel with example content;
- Necessary forms and precedents to file or respond to a claim.
The detailed Retainer Instructions ensures nothing is missed and the client is properly advised.
Ready To Use Resources
Choose from ready-to-use legal documents within this Publication.
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- ALERTS - Nil“”
- Full Commentary - Family Provision Claims (SA) - Acting for the Applicant“null”
- Reference materials
- Overview and limitation periods“Overview Until the introduction of testators’ family maintenance legislation in New Zealand at the start of the twentieth century, and its speedy adoption in Victoria in 1906, and then throughout the Australian states and ultimately England, there was no way by which a disappointed dependant could ...”
- A. Getting the matter underway
- B. Settling it early
- C. Going to court
- D. Finalising the matter
- Comments and suggestions for By Lawyers“null”
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