Hutley's Australian wills precedents / Craig Birtles, Richard Neal, Caroline Sims.
2025
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Title
Hutley's Australian wills precedents / Craig Birtles, Richard Neal, Caroline Sims.
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Alternate Title
Australian wills precedents
Edition
11th edition
ISBN
9780409351842 online
Imprint
Chatswood, N.S.W. : LexisNexis Australia, 2025.
Copyright
©2025
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
Online
Summary
A book for succession law practitioners who often need to find practical useable precedents with applicable commentary quite quickly. Hutley"s Australian Wills Precedents has become the essential reference work on the art of will drafting in Australia. This 10th edition continues to provide an authoritative system of precedents for practitioners supported by a full explanation of the law and the authors’ opinion as to the implications for will drafters of the relevant court decisions. It contains updated case law, legislation and commentary as well as a streamlining of precedents making for a user-friendly text. - Publisher's website.
Note
Previous edition: 2021.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
1. General considerations - estate planning; validity of will, requirements for; capacity ; concealment of will; order to produce will
2. Drafting a will using these precedents; taking instructions and structuring a will
3. Commencement and testimonium; wills for assets in foreign countries
4. Revocation clauses
5. Directions as to disposal and use of the body; enduring power of attorney; appointment of enduring guardian; directions as to undue prolongation of life
6. Deaths - simultaneous or near-simultaneous; presumption of death; order of deaths clauses; intermediate income
7. Children; adopted, surrogate and ex-nuptial children; guardianship
8. Will made in contemplation of marriage; the effect of divorce
9. Provision for spouse or partner
10. Appointment of executors
11. Payment of executors: gifts in lieu of payment; gifts to be independent of acting as executor or trustee
12. Executor's right to buy trust property
13. Solicitors to be employed by executors
14. Family provision; financial agreements - prenuptial, nuptial and postnuptial
15. Taxes and duties
16. Releases
17. Life insurance policies and superannuation
18. Gift of whole estate to executors on trust
19. Pecuniary legacies
20. Personal property
21. Shares and other interests in respect of a limited company; appointment of directors
22. Real property
23. Specific gift of property subject to mortgage or charge; Locke King's Act
24. Annuities and protective trusts
25. Trusts
26. Life interests, including occupation of matrimonial home, substitutionary provisions, apportionment and powers of appointment
27. Residuary gifts, and gifts of the whole estate
28. Gifts to charities and incorporated or unincorporated bodies
29. Powers of executors and trustees
30. Codicils
31. Attestation
32.Backing sheet
33. Contracts as to dispositions by will; mutual wills
Appendix A - Most used forms
Appendix B - Model wills.
2. Drafting a will using these precedents; taking instructions and structuring a will
3. Commencement and testimonium; wills for assets in foreign countries
4. Revocation clauses
5. Directions as to disposal and use of the body; enduring power of attorney; appointment of enduring guardian; directions as to undue prolongation of life
6. Deaths - simultaneous or near-simultaneous; presumption of death; order of deaths clauses; intermediate income
7. Children; adopted, surrogate and ex-nuptial children; guardianship
8. Will made in contemplation of marriage; the effect of divorce
9. Provision for spouse or partner
10. Appointment of executors
11. Payment of executors: gifts in lieu of payment; gifts to be independent of acting as executor or trustee
12. Executor's right to buy trust property
13. Solicitors to be employed by executors
14. Family provision; financial agreements - prenuptial, nuptial and postnuptial
15. Taxes and duties
16. Releases
17. Life insurance policies and superannuation
18. Gift of whole estate to executors on trust
19. Pecuniary legacies
20. Personal property
21. Shares and other interests in respect of a limited company; appointment of directors
22. Real property
23. Specific gift of property subject to mortgage or charge; Locke King's Act
24. Annuities and protective trusts
25. Trusts
26. Life interests, including occupation of matrimonial home, substitutionary provisions, apportionment and powers of appointment
27. Residuary gifts, and gifts of the whole estate
28. Gifts to charities and incorporated or unincorporated bodies
29. Powers of executors and trustees
30. Codicils
31. Attestation
32.Backing sheet
33. Contracts as to dispositions by will; mutual wills
Appendix A - Most used forms
Appendix B - Model wills.
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