An Advance Care Directive (ACD), sometimes called an Advance Health Care Directive, is a document that sets out your wishes in relation to your consent to or refusal of specified medical treatment in the future. The document becomes effective in situations where you are no longer able to make decisions for yourself and is [...]

Recent case law had demonstrated that the size of the Estate doesn’t always mean that an Applicant in a family provisions claim will be successful in attempting to get more than the legacy left under the Will. In Revell v Revell [2016] NSWSC 947, His Honour Pembroke J found that a legacy of $1.5 million to [...]