Szabo & Associates News & Updates

A man has failed in his attempt to claim a share of his late father’s estate, the Sydney Morning Herald has reported.

Too many people across Australia have yet to take the important step of writing a Will.

A north shore doyenne’s daughter, who was left out of her mother’s will because of favouritism, has successfully sued her younger sister in order to land herself a portion of her mother’s $2 million estate.

In a case described as ‘the first of its kind’ by NSW Supreme Court judge Geoff Lindsay, 3 aboriginal sisters have won an appeal to be given access to the Estate of their half-brother, who died without leaving a Will. MP Linda Burney has successfully plead with a NSW Supreme Court Judge to rule in favour of three of her Aboriginal friends, who were looking to access their half-brother’s $200,000 Estate. Their brother, Mr. Howard Stanley Wilson was a member of the Stolen Generation, and was adopted by a white family in a ‘forced adoption’ shortly after his birth. Ms. Burney addressed a letter to the court, seeking to ensure that the women would inherit their half-brother’s Estate, in front of the members of the white family that adopted, and raised him. Ms. Burney, the first Aboriginal to be elected to the Australian House of Representatives, was a member of the NSW parliament that amended succession law, the changes to which allowed the sisters to make the claim in the first place. 

Sadly, it appears that incidences of Elder abuse are on the rise across Australia.