Probate & estates · disputes
When the Estate Goes Wrong
When the Estate Goes Wrong
Victoria edition
You are the executor, and the estate is disputed: a caveat, a challenge to the will, a family provision claim, or a family that has stopped speaking to you. Thirteen chapters on holding the estate steady while the argument is resolved — by agreement if possible, by the Court if it must be.
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What is in the program
- Three groups that open as the dispute does: something has gone wrong; a caveat, claim or proceeding has landed; mediation and settlement
- One family, the Kellaways of Bairnsdale, worked through every chapter — a will made after a dementia diagnosis, a sister's caveat, a carer son, a stepson left out, and an executor who would gain if the will failed
- The W1–W22 document pack: the dispute binder, the neutral holding letter, the conflict disclosure letter, the occupation agreement, the evidence and records schedules, the costs-to-trial estimator and the final distribution statement
- Pre-priced help by the task from a panel firm: the caveat response, the directions hearing, the estate affidavit, representation at mediation, and the deed of family arrangement