Donal Griffin

In this article, we draw your attention on an often under-considered practical issue and some recent cases.

After years of arguing with my sister, I concede that Women are the Best. Here is something I and Mrs Legacy Law agree on.

Not since the ABC’s “Fisk” have we at Legacy Law felt so a part of the zeitgeist. Everyone has an opinion on the show – here is ours. Warning, there are spoilers.

The cases about carers continue to happen. With life expectancy increases, we expect there to be more to come.

While on leave, I learned a few things and had some things I already knew confirmed by people much smarter than me! Please see the attached article.

A Queensland Court has found that a strategy to reduce the size of an Estate was a “sham”. Read our article to see if this is relevant to your circumstances.

I would not ask clients to do things I am not prepared to so I have been applying Bowen Theory of Family Systems to my own family with interesting results. I gave a presentation to the Institute recently. Here is a note about that.

We were recently asked to present to other lawyers on our research into how to give clients more than just a Will. We shared ideas from the US at the Law Society. There is a lot more we can do to help people #beabetterancestor.

The recent life and death of Warnie has some lessons for us all we suggest. #BeABetterAncestor

Given the day it is, we attach an extract from Donal’s forthcoming book, An Irish Book of Living and Dying – A Migrant’s Tale. Apart from First Nations people, we are all migrants in Australia. Why don’t you write your migrant’s tale? Your family may like to see it and you might even enjoy it … Read more