This presentation outlines the approach taken by the Family Court to determine matters between couples who have separated and how this impacts on a succession lawyer’s ability to offer advice. This includes:
- family trust distributions and beneficiary entitlements
- beneficiary loan accounts
- competing priorities of spouses and other beneficiaries in the Family Court after death
- the High Court case of Bamford delivered 16 November 2012
- the impact of binding financial agreements on family provision claims.