Published: September 2022
Authors: Vicki Ammundsen, Stephen McCarthy KC
Pages: 55 + PowerPoint slides

Content outline

  • Will instructions
  • Legal formality
  • Elements of testamentary capacity
  • Extent of property
  • Diminution through time or illness
  • Fluctuating capacity
  • Impairment
  • Testamentary capacity
  • Evidence of capacity
  • Prevalence of trusts
  • Practical steps to avoid will challenges
  • Retaining evidence of capacity
  • Testamentary capacity
  • PRA cases
  • Family protection act cases
  • Testamentary promises cases
  • Breach of contract and promissory estoppel
  • Breach of fiduciary duty as between parent and child
  • Privilege claim in estate proceedings
  • Mutual wills
  • Law commision review of succession law
  • Nga Tikanga
  • Property (Relationships) Act 1976
  • Law commission recommends repealing the family protection act
  • Law reform (testamentary promises) act 1049
  • Intestacy regime
  • Summary of the recommended new intestacy regime
 
AMMUNDSEN Vicki MCCARTHY KC, Stephen  
Vicki Ammundsen
Director, Vicki Ammundsen Trust Law,
Auckland
Stephen McCarthy KC
Barrister,
Auckland
 
     

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