Recorded Webinar: The Rise and Rise of Informal Wills

From video recordings, post-it notes, and unsent text messages, what has been admitted into probate in recent years may well surprise probate lawyers with long memories. This session looks at legal challenges created by the use of technology in will making, including:

• Defining an informal will and identifying recent trends

• Executors dealing with informal testamentary documents of unknown validity

• Evidence requiredin informal wills - on balance of probabilities

• The interplay of testamentary capacity and informal wills

• Use of subpoenas to access potential will or other informal testamentary documents

• Informal revocation or variation of wills - what is allowable?

• Case update, including Radford v White [2018] QSC 306, Re Carrigan [2018] QSC 206