Penelope Nicholls

SELECTED REPRESENTATIONS

• Acting for a Body Corporate to obtain a grant as a creditor where a unit owner had died, no steps had been taken to administer the estate and substantial Body Corporate fees were owedby the estate. The Body Corporate did not want to be tasked with any other estate administration, so estate accounts were approved by the court and balance of the estate fundspaid into Court.
• Acting for families with large and complex landholdings, to appropriate properties after a person has died to take advantage of the transfer duty concessions afforded to deceased estates.
• Acting for a beneficiary where they had concerns about an executor’s conduct of an estate administration.
• Acting for an executor obtaining probate of a copy of a will where the deceased’s original will could not be located. Investigations were made into the whereabouts of the Will, affidavits sought, a court appearance was required, and the grant was successfully obtained, which allowed our client to progress the estate administration.