Do estranged family members have the right to challenge a will if they are not a beneficiary?

The simple answer is yes.

Estrangement between a deceased and an applicant does not necessarily exclude the obligation to provide.

However, the courts will take into account many factors in making a decision.

The court will look at the circumstances surrounding the estrangement including who was the cause of the estrangement, the reasons for the estrangement, and whether the deceased lacked the capacity of reasonableness or forgiveness.

The Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) has provisions in place that protect Australian employees from “harsh, unjust or unreasonable” dismissal. According to McHugh and Gummow JJ in Byrne v Australian Airlines Ltd (1995), termination of employment “may be unjust because the employee was not guilty of misconduct on which the employer acted, may be unreasonable because it was decided upon inferences which could not reasonably have been drawn from the material before the employer, and may be harsh in its consequences for the personal and economic situation of the employee or because it is disproportionate to the gravity of the misconduct in respect of which the employer acted.”

Save thousands of dollars in stamp duty by avoiding these ten common stamp duty traps in business contracts.

• Your business trust deed is lost
• But you have found a copy of the stamped trust deed
• You can only find an unstamped unsigned copy of the trust deed
• Will you sign the unstamped unsigned copy of the Trust Deed?
• No copy of the trust deed can be found
• Changing the Trustee of your Trading Trust
• The Apparent Purchaser Provisions
• Transferring Business Real Property into Super
• Borrowing money to acquire business real property within a superannuation fund
• And what happens when the bare trustee transfers the property to your self-managed superannuation fund?