Wills require sensitive and sensible foresight and planning to ensure that things that clients have worked over many years to achieve, e.g. strong family relationships are maintained and fostered, even after death and with that in mind, personal attention is given to each and every client in drafting Wills, Estate Planning and Enduring Powers of Attorney.

If you would like us to start drafting your Will or Power of Attorney today, you can submit an online Will Checklist which can be found in our Forms section.

Because we have a large senior community in this area, we frequently practise in elder and Probate Law.

Ken Lee Legal offers one of the easiest and most cost-effective ways to obtain a will in the southern Queensland coastal region and Northern Rivers Region in NSW. We can assist you with:

• Drafting & updating wills;
• Applying for Probate;
• Assistance with claims against wills & estates
• Deceased estate claims / defending deceased estates
• Estate planning administration
• Letters of Administration (in the event that a will is deemed invalid);
• Supreme Court estate litigation; and
• Assistance with family provision claims/contesting wills

We always recommend keeping your will up to date as it makes distributing your estate far easier on your beneficiaries in what is already a hard enough time as it is.

Letters of Administration
In the some-what complicated event that a valid will has not been left, Ken Lee Legal can assist you with applying for Letters of Administration to the Supreme Court of NSW / QLD. In these circumstances, there is legislation that details how an estate may be distributed and by whom. The Supreme Court can appoint an Administrator to distribute the estate under the Wills, Probate and Administration Act 1898.

The Family Provision Applications
If you expected to be a beneficiary of a will but have not been provided for, you can make a claim against the distribution of any estate under the Family Provision part of the Succession Act, provided you can clearly set out reasons as to why you should be considered a beneficiary of the deceased estate.

Probate
Ken Lee Legal can help you apply to the Supreme Court of NSW / QLD for Probate in instances where there is a valid will and you have been nominated as Executor of that will. The Supreme Court can then grant probate which authorises you to distribute the deceased estate in accordance with the provisions of the will.

Agency

We also look forward to assisting legal practitioners from other states, territories and countries with agency Probate, Letters of Administration and re-sealing of original grants, transmission and transfer of assets upon death.

Arrange a consultation with an experienced solicitor.

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