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Mediation is a step in the process of an inheritance dispute that usually precedes going to court. The focus of mediation is to come to mutually agreeable terms between the executors of the estate in question and the individuals contesting a willP The two parties come together in a confidential meeting where the details of the dispute can be discussed and

The wife of a deceased man has been awarded her husband’s $60,000 Mercedes C Class car following a court decision in her favour during a family provision claim. However, the plaintiff’s victory could be considered bittersweet, as her claim covered a range of different requests against the estate – many of which were ultimately rejected. Her husband made several provisions for

A man has been awarded $500,000 from his mother’s estate after launching a successful family provision claim. The plaintiff’s mother, who died in 2012, left her assets to her husband in a 1962 will. However, he predeceased her in 2007, meaning the estate was divided equally between the plaintiff and his brother and sister. According to Supreme Court documents, the

Often new clients approach Gerard Malouf and Partners expert personal injury lawyers, and ask what chance they have in a medical negligence case involving an action against a hospital, nurse, doctor, chiropractor or a member of the medical profession as a result of negligent, unsafe medical treatment/diagnosis. The same questions are asked when clients approach requesting advice as to the

A 92-year-old woman has been awarded $100,000 after making a family provision claim when her de-facto spouse died last year. The case had a number of complications that made the final decision complex, including the fact the deceased had four daughters and four stepdaughters from a former marriage. This created problems because the stepchildren had not benefited from real estate money the

A family provision claim can help people challenge a will when feel they have been inadequately provided for by the deceased. This is exactly what one woman did recently when her de-facto partner died from pancreatic cancer, leaving the majority of his estate to his only daughter. The plaintiff, who had been in a relationship with the deceased since 1998, originally received