- CPD Points: 1 [SL]
- Price: $45.00
- Area: Administration of Estates; Elder and Succession Law; Family Law; Guardianship; Succession Planning; Wills
- Delivered: June 2016
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Description
Mr Lindsay Ellison SC delivered this session into the Elder and Succession Law Conference 2016. This entertaining session considers that claims by adult children represent the most common challenge to a testator’s wishes. For the last 50 years, the “able bodied” child has not been excluded from bringing a successful family provision claim against the estate of a parent. Estrangement is a lawyer’s word, not found in the legislation. Can a parent ever successfully exclude a child following a single argument or having been ignored for decades? Does “moral duty” always require a parent to make provision for a child? Not surprisingly, the authorities provide no clear answer.
Lindsay Ellison, Barrister
About the Presenter:
After a short and uneventful career as a suburban solicitor, Mr Lindsay Ellison went to the bar in 1985, and became an SC in 2005. He practices in Equity and Probate and has appeared in many of leading NSW Wills and Estates cases. Lindsay is a former Vice President of the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences and a long-time member of the Australian Skeptics, the Samuel Griffith Society and the Centre for Independent Studies. He is happily married to his first wife and has two children and a dog. He has no interest in sailing, skiing, cooking or learning a foreign language and doesn't own a winery. He doesn't wish to achieve a work/life balance. He eats too much chocolate. Lindsay has made 425+ donations to Red Cross. He recommends you do the same. His philosophy is that if you draw blood, the least you can do is give some back.
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