Wills & Trusts Law Reports | December 2016 #165Reginald Easingwood (Reginald) was married to Kathleen Easingwood (Kathleen) from 1983. He had four children by his first wife, who had died in 1976. In April 2001, Reginald executed an enduring power of attorney in favour of his two children acting together. Three years later, in March 2004, Reginald made a will. Under that will, Kathleen was to have an entitlement to income in a fund of $525,000 (plus adjustment for each year), which upon her death would be divided between his children, his step children, and his grandchildren. He also gave his wife a life interest in the matrimonial h...
John Dickinson and Natasha Dzameh look at the circumstances in which a disposition to an executor constitutes an absolute gift ‘Mr Justice Newey therefore concluded that the will constituted an absolute gift to the executor and there was no impermissible delegation of the deceased’s testamentary powers.’ Practitioners contending with wills and probate matters are fully …
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