Szabo & Associates News & Updates

House price rises in Australia’s state capitals rose by an average of 1.4% in February, and by 11.7% over the past twelve months, according to the latest Home Value Index from CoreLogic.

Consider this Scenario

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.

As reported in our first blog about the dispute surrounding the estate of Sir Denzil Mcarthur-Onslow, a battle between siblings and property developers leaves the fate of the balance in dispute. It came to light that Sir Denzil’s children to his second wife, Lady Macarthur-Onslow, were locked in a battle about the future of their late father’s land, and the fortune attached to it. It is now clear that they are not the only ones who want to lay their claim to the estate, as the grandchildren of Sir Denzil, and his first wife Elinor, have entered the discussions, saying they deserve a cut of the money, which they always ‘assumed’ they would receive one day.