STEP NSW Seminar, September 2019: “Testamentary Freedom and Aboriginal Estates”

STEP AUSTRALIA - NSW Branch invites you to an address by Professor Prue Vines and Barrister, Mr. Simon Chapple, who will present on “Testamentary Freedom and Aboriginal Estates”.

Professor Prue Vines will cover:

• ‘Indigenous people’s issues with succession law’:
  Indigenous people’s needs may differ from those of non-Indigenous clients
  
• The impact of common law on Indigenous people has been profound and destructive and there has been very little attention paid to it by succession lawyers until very recently.
• A burgeoning Indigenous middle class means there are significant numbers of professionals and people likely to want to make wills. Indigenous people who live in non-traditional ways do not give up their ideas about family and often continue to maintain customary law obligations.
• Who is regarded as part of the family may differ because kinship structures differ
• More than 300 nations across Australia means their customary law and patterns of kinship differ by nation
• Drafting wills for  Indigenous people requires some changes to normal drafting patterns. This will be discussed in detail in the paper
• Appointments of Executor may be even more significant than for non-Indigenous clients because of the importance of dealing with the body.

Mr. Simon Chapple will cover:

• What happens when an Indigenous person dies intestate in NSW, and the ways in which it is possible for the court to take account of customary law in distributing the estate, and the consequences of this. Recent cases will be addressed.

Nadine Miles, Principal Legal Officer at ALS NSW/ACT will provide some brief comments at the conclusion of the seminar.

Send the details of this invitation to your colleagues - they will thank you.

EVENT DETAILS:        

DATE:               Wednesday 18th of September 2019

TIME:               5:30 pm Sharp. 

                         Refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the seminar.

VENUE:            Banco Court, Supreme Court of NSW 

ENQUIRIES:     Please email Sonia Spiteri at stepnswaustralia@step.org

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Contact Sonia Spiteri, our STEP NSW Branch Secretary, to register your interest for sponsorship opportunities with the STEP NSW Branch. 

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