This article was written by Grace Blake Solicitor at W & G Lawyers.
Being left out of a Will is hard enough on its own. Where the deceased owned property in another country, or where you live overseas yourself, the position becomes more complicated, and the expensive mistakes tend to be made in the first few weeks, before anyone has thought to get advice.
A good deal of our estate work involves families whose assets and relationships cross borders. A parent who migrated to Queensland but kept an apartment in Shanghai. An adult child overseas who hears months after the funeral that they have been left out. Queensland’s family provision laws apply to these estates, but they cannot always reach every asset, and the result is often not what families expect.
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