Estate planning

Advice regarding estate planning is essential to ensure that your estate passes effectively to those persons you wish to benefit in the most efficient and tax effective way possible. Our team at Warren McKeon Dickson can assist you to prepare a will which will give full effect to your wishes. The right advice will ensure that fees, charges and taxes on your estate are minimised, as are any prospects of a successful challenge to your estate.
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Will Information Sheet

Administration of Deceased Estates

The administration of a deceased estate is the process of getting in and distributing the assets of a deceased person in accordance with his or her will. Whether a person dies leaving a will or without a will (intestate), our team at Warren McKeon Dickson can assist and advise the executor or administrator of the estate in relation to his or her role or responsibilities and the most efficient ways to administer the estate.

Family Provision Act claims and Estate Litigation

Warren McKeon Dickson specialises in claims under the Family Provision Act. Certain classes of people are eligible to make a claim against a deceased's estate if they feel they have not received adequate provision in that person's will. We have experience in acting for estates in defending claims and alternatively, acting for claimants to ensure they receive a proper provision from an estate.

Please contact us if you require advice in relation to:

• Drafting your will to minimise potential claims
• Obtaining a Grant of Probate or obtaining Letters of Administration
• The steps that must be taken to correctly administer a deceased estate
• Your role as an executor under a will
• Your rights as a beneficiary under a will
• Your rights to make a claim against an estate
• Defending or making a claim under the Family Provision Act
• Challenging a will or alternatively defending the estate against such a challenge