Informal Wills

Informal Wills and Testamentary Intentions: In Re Prien [2019] VSC 47 The Victorian Supreme Court decision in In Re Prien [2019] VSC 47 examined whether an informal codicil – consisting of [...]

The question for a court is to determine what documents will constitute an informal will to be admitted for the purpose of obtaining Probate. In the case of The Late Rae Mackay in the Supreme [...]

The 2017 case of Borthwick v Mitchell was required to consider whether informal notes dictated by the deceased prior to his death, when he was hospitalised and gravely ill, constituted a valid [...]

You may write up a document in a notebook and the issue will then be whether you intended your thoughts to be taken seriously as testamentary intentions. In the 2015 case of In the Estate of the [...]

How easy is it to just make a handwritten alteration to a will saying “Alteration to my will”, then date the will but not arrange for any witnessing of the alteration and then staple the [...]

What Counts as an Informal Will? You may be surprised to learn that a will does not always have to be a formal legal document drafted in precise legal language. In some cases, it can consist of [...]