Recent Wins

Our client stated that the deceased had been separated from his wife for a period of approximately 15 years but the wife denied any form of separation whatsoever.  The wife’s and deceased’s children supported her position.  We were able to show text messages and credit card statements proving the relationship and enabling resolution of the matter at mediation for a sum of $500,000.

The deceased re-married when Gary was young and his stepfather was quite abusive.  There was a complete estrangement between Gary and the deceased for many years and he attempted reconciliation in 2020 which completely failed.  The value of the Estate as disclosed in the sealed probate documents was approximately $1,250,000 of which Gary received $500,000 as a result of our negotiations.  

Mick’s mother passed away leaving the entirety of her Estate to Mick’s brother.  The Estate consisted of a house in Sydney where she owned 4/5ths.  The deceased noted in her Will that our client failed to repay a loan from well over 30 years ago and that she had provided enough for him during his lifetime and that the relationship had broken down irretrievably due to our client’s actions in him being derogatory towards her and that she had not seen him for at least 15 years.  There were also allegations that our client failed to look after the deceased when she was sick and that she had attempted to reconcile with no success.

Notwithstanding the obvious difficulties we were able to resolve the matter with Mick receiving approximately 15% of the value of the Estate which was a very good result in the circumstances.

There were 3 other aggrieved parties challenging the will as well. We picked up the case on the Thursday, and ran the hearing on the Monday for 5 days.

Julian, although completely out of the will, won his case and was awarded some $240,000.

We commenced proceedings and despite a lack of contact and lack of willingness to negotiate from the other party, we were able to finalise a settlement at a mediation. Our client did not accept the other side’s estimation of the value of the property so we were able to negotiate our costs paid from the Estate in full, the Estate’s costs paid from the Estate in full and our client to receive 30% of the leftover from the Estate after the house is sold. Our client was very happy with this result.