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Appointing an Enduring Guardian can help prepare you and your family for sudden changes in circumstance. It is helpful for everybody to know who is entitled to make important decisions on your behalf when you are no longer able to make them for yourself. It is also useful for your family to know what you might have wanted in a range of common situations.

Last week we published the first blog in a two part series, which focuses on contesting a will in New South Wales. We explained that whilst actually contesting a will in Australia is not difficult, two recent NSW court decisions indicate that doing so successfully is much more so.

Contesting a Will in New South Wales is relatively straightforward, however doing so successfully would appear to be another matter altogether - after two recent NSW court decisions have highlighted the difficulties of mounting an effective challenge. This short blog looks at the first case of the two.

An inheritance dispute between two brothers over their mother's Will has recently been heard in the High Court of New Zealand, reports the Sunday Star Times.

A survey conducted in England and Wales suggests that approximately 25 per cent of wills drafted by solicitors in that jurisdiction are of poor quality, thus leaving them open to challenge.