Estate Litigation
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Does the Executor of an Estate Represent the Beneficiaries of the...
No. The executor represents the estate. What is the difference? The difference is that the estate is a form of trust. A trust has a legal identity in its own right. The executor represents that trust, or legal entity, as a whole. Some estates have only one beneficiary, other estates have more than one beneficiary,...
Preventing Family Provision Claims
A family provision claim is a legal action brought by someone looking for a share of a person’s deceased estate, when they believe they have not been adequately provided for. Can a Will be contested? There is no way to stop someone from contesting a Will or making a family provision claim in Queensland. Anyone...