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#LstTxt&Tstmnt: an unsent text message can count as a will, in the right circumstances

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Gogarty, B, #LstTxt&Tstmnt: an unsent text message can count as a will, in the right circumstances, The Conversation, Conversation Media Trust, Australia, 13 October 2017, pp. 1-5. (2017) [Magazine Article]


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Abstract

Based on those few sentences, a Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland recently decided in Re Nichol that the property of a deceased man should go to his brother and nephew, rather than his widow.

Item Details

Item Type:Magazine Article
Keywords:law, succession, wills, intestacy, intestate, probate, technology, courts, IT, ICT, social media
Research Division:Law and Legal Studies
Research Group:Public law
Research Field:Public law not elsewhere classified
Objective Division:Law, Politics and Community Services
Objective Group:Justice and the law
Objective Field:Justice and the law not elsewhere classified
UTAS Author:Gogarty, B (Associate Professor Brendan Gogarty)
ID Code:121774
Year Published:2017
Deposited By:Law
Deposited On:2017-10-13
Last Modified:2017-10-13
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