- CPD Points: 1 [PS] [SL]
- Price: $89.00
- Area: Administration of Estates; Estate Planning; Litigation; Succession Planning; Testators' Family Maintenance
- Delivered: September 2025
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Description
Kimberley Martin, Director, WMM Law, delivered this session into the 2025 Estate and Succession Law Conference.
Session Outline
- Examine legal tests for recognising and ending de facto relationships, contrasting with marriage, and highlighting significance in family law, estate planning, superannuation, and succession.
- Explore breakdown implications for wills and associated instruments to highlight the wide-ranging effects of relationship termination on legal rights and entitlements.
- Consideration of key judicial decisions to show how courts approach disputes over de facto separation and post-death entitlements.
Key Takeaways
- Know when a de facto relationship exists or has ended is critical for advising clients on planning, superannuation, entitlements, and litigation, given major legal consequences flowing from relationship status.
- Understand jurisdictional differences in tests for relationship existence and termination, as these can significantly impact wills, enduring appointments, superannuation nominations, and potential estate or succession claims.
- CPD Points: 1 [PS] [SL]
- Price: $89.00
- Area: Administration of Estates; Estate Planning; Litigation; Succession Planning; Testators' Family Maintenance
- Delivered: September 2025
Digital Content
- Recording
- PDF of slides
To purchase login below
Description
Kimberley Martin, Director, WMM Law, delivered this session into the 2025 Estate and Succession Law Conference.
Session Outline
- Examine legal tests for recognising and ending de facto relationships, contrasting with marriage, and highlighting significance in family law, estate planning, superannuation, and succession.
- Explore breakdown implications for wills and associated instruments to highlight the wide-ranging effects of relationship termination on legal rights and entitlements.
- Consideration of key judicial decisions to show how courts approach disputes over de facto separation and post-death entitlements.
Key Takeaways
- Know when a de facto relationship exists or has ended is critical for advising clients on planning, superannuation, entitlements, and litigation, given major legal consequences flowing from relationship status.
- Understand jurisdictional differences in tests for relationship existence and termination, as these can significantly impact wills, enduring appointments, superannuation nominations, and potential estate or succession claims.
Kimberley Martin, Director, WMM Law
About the Presenter:
Ms Kimberley Martin is a senior estate planning, commercial, tax and trusts lawyer experienced in all aspects of Estate Planning, including Wills, Enduring Powers of Attorney, Instruments Appointing Enduring Guardians, trust law and superannuation law. Her LLB is from UTAS, and she has an LLM (Masters) in Wills & Estates. Kimberley is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), an international group of professionals involved in trusts and estates. Through STEP, she is a member of the STEP Digital Asset Special Interest Group, a global group that provides an international forum of debate, education and support on digital issues. Kimberley won the Law Society of Tasmania’s Young Lawyer Award in 2016 and was awarded international Young Practitioner of the Year at the STEP Private Client Awards in London in 2018.
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