In many instances, the family of someone who has died will decide to auction the estate. In some instances, the person who has died may also have made provisions for the estate to be auctioned with the money received during the auction being distributed amongst the beneficiaries. Why Auctions? There are a number of reasons [...]

The distribution of the property within a deceased estate is overseen by both legislative and common law authorities.  The objectives of the laws relating to wills and estates are to ensure that a person’s property is distributed amongst beneficiaries as per their intentions before they died. In this case the distribution of the property in [...]

When someone dies, all of their property, including real and financial, becomes part of their estate. Generally, when a person dies, the property that is brought into the estate will be fairly easy to identify, however, some property which can be found within a deceased estate is easy to identify, however other property owned by [...]

When a person dies without leaving a will or has a will that fails to deal with all of the property to be effectively disposed, it is considered that they have died intestate. For centuries there have been rules that deal with the property left by a person who dies intestate, these rules are based [...]

In Australia, the law of succession deals with the distribution of property from a deceased estate. One of the concepts of Australian property law is that property must have an owner; this is the basis for much of the Australian succession legislation, whereby property must transfer from a deceased person to another person. In each [...]

As has been quite famously stated, there is nothing surer than death and taxes, and this statement in itself is quite poignant to consider when being faced with a deceased estate. Like most events throughout a persons life, most will in some form or another have taxation implications. In the case of deceased estates, one [...]