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Hypotheticals by Manny Wood. Published in the Coffs Coast Advocate on 3 October 2015. Jack and Jill are in their late 60s and have been married for more than 30 years. They reside in the family home that, over the years, has housed themselves and their four children. Jack and Jill are conscious of the importance of making wills and they consult a solicitor who informs them that their wills only come into effect upon their death and their wills appoint an executor to administer their estates. […]

Hypotheticals by Manny Wood. Published in the Coffs Coast Advocate on 26 September 2015. Romeo and Juliet met each other later in life. Romeo was divorced many years ago and Juliet was widowed. After dating for several months, Romeo moved into Juliet’s home and soon after, Romeo’s son moved into Juliet’s spare room. During their relationship, Romeo performed regular maintenance and repairs to Juliet’s house. […]

Hypotheticals by Manny Wood. Published in the Coffs Coast Advocate on 19 September 2015. John and Jane purchased a vacant block on the north coast of New South Wales and planned to build a home for themselves and their son, Jason who was attending high school. […]

Hypotheticals by Manny Wood. Published in the Coffs Coast Advocate on 29 August 2015. When John recently died at the age of 86, he left the bulk of his $1.5m estate to a friend of his, who had been looking after him in his later years. John was a widow and had just one child, James. […]

Hypotheticals by Manny Wood. Published in the Coffs Coast Advocate on 22 August 2015. Raymond and Cynthia purchased their home in 2014. When they purchased the property, their solicitor discovered that the home had been built in 2006 and there was home warranty insurance taken out at the time by the licensed builder, trading as ABC Homes. […]

Hypotheticals by Manny Wood. Published in the Coffs Coast Advocate on 15 August 2015. Since her husband’s death, several years ago, Jill has become increasingly computer savvy. She enjoys communicating with her friends and family via Facebook and has created an extensive collection of photographs using cloud technology.  Jill has also established an email account and has elected to receive bank statements and various monthly invoices electronically. […]

Hypotheticals by Manny Wood. Published in the Coffs Coast Advocate on 8 August 2015. In 1994, John hand-wrote a document that he intended to act as his will. He left the whole of his estate to his five children equally and nominated one of his children as his executor. John signed the document but he neglected to execute it in the presence of two witnesses. At the time of John’s death, this document was located amongst his personal papers. […]

Hypotheticals by Manny Wood. Published in the Coffs Coast Advocate on 1 August 2015. John met Juliette via an on-line dating service. John was a wealthy property developer in his late 60s. Juliette, was in her mid-30s and resided overseas when they met. Juliette had no assets of any significant value and had a poor grasp of the English language. […]

Hypotheticals by Manny Wood. Published in the Coffs Coast Advocate on 25 July 2015. Jane died at the age of 93, leaving an estate valued at approximately $1.25 million. Jane was widowed many years ago and is survived by her 3 children, namely Jack, Jill and John. Jane’s last will left a gift of $100,000 to Jack’s only child and left the rest of her estate to Jill and John equally. Jack was disinherited. […]

Published in the Coffs Coast Advoate on 18 July 2015 by Jack Blaxland. John is a farmer who has a farm where he breeds beef cattle. […]