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Etherton v Mitchelmore [2024] NSWSC 170 — Informal Document & Costs — Barrister AI

Etherton v Mitchelmore

[2024] NSWSC 170

Supreme Court of NSW

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Catchwords

1. Succession
2. › informal document
3. › testamentary intention
4. › intention that document be an alteration to a will
5. › document purporting to express testamentary intention
6. › document signed by testator
7. › testator with history of making false statements in relation to her testamentary intentions
8. › failure to see solicitor before or after preparing document
9. › failure to deliver document for safekeeping
10. › Succession Act 2006 (NSW), s 8
1. Costs
2. › party proposing informal will to be admitted to probate
3. › applicant unsuccessful
4. › whether applicant’s costs should be paid out of the estate
5. › document purported to disinherit testator’s family
6. › likely effect of pending family provision claims
7. › whether pursuit of claim reasonable

Case Details

Citation[2024] NSWSC 170

CourtNSWSC

JurisdictionNew South Wales

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