Guamani v Guamani

• 1. Succession
  2. › Contested probate
  3. › Testamentary capacity
  4. › Application of test in Banks v Goodfellow
  5. › Onus on propounder where suspicious circumstances
  6. › Distinction between medical capacity and testamentary capacity
  7. › Whether propounder discharged onus of proving capacity
• 1. Succession
  2. › Contested probate
  3. › Knowledge and approval
  4. › Suspicious circumstances
  5. › Beneficiary who played part in preparation of will
  6. › Whether will explained to testator in language he understood
  7. › Whether propounder discharged onus
• 1. Succession
  2. › Informal wills
  3. › Dispensing power
  4. › Whether document intended to form testator's will
  5. › Whether knowledge and approval established as precondition to exercise of dispensing power
  6. › Succession Act 2006 (NSW), s 8
• 1. Succession
  2. › Family provision
  3. › Claim by surviving spouse
  4. › Competing claims of other beneficiaries
  5. › Adequacy of provision
  6. › Whether widow entitled to secure accommodation and fund for contingencies
  7. › Succession Act 2006 (NSW), Ch 3, ss 59, 60

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