Trust & Estate Disputes
We have considerable experience working for executors, trustees and beneficiaries of estates, settlors, trustees and beneficiaries of trusts and charitable trusts.
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Our areas of expertise
Our experience includes representing clients in the District Court, High Court, and Courts of Appeal as well as in arbitrations, mediations and negotiations.
We have an in-depth understanding of family protections claims, testamentary promise claims and claims under the Wills Act and Trusts Act.
Recent work:
Representing adult children who were excluded from their estranged father’s will in a family protection claim
Representing adult children against a stepparent who frustrated an award of their entitlements from their parent’s will
Representing an aging client and his natural children to protect his assets from a subsequent relationship
Representing beneficiaries of a will against which a testamentary promise claim was brought
Representing a charitable trust which was the beneficiary of a will against which family protection claims were brought
Representing the executrix of a will against which family protection claims, and testamentary promise claims were brought
Representing the beneficiaries of a prior will who were excluded from a subsequent document which purported to be a will, but which did not meet the requirements of a will
Representing beneficiaries of an estate in reaching a deed of family arrangement
Representing an executor of an estate of a prior will in obtaining probate
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Our experts
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