Description
Attend and earn .5 CPD hour in Substantive Law
This program is based on QLD legislation
Chair
Kate Varcoe, Special Counsel, de Groots; Recommended Leading Wills & Estates Litigation Lawyers – Queensland, Doyles Guide 2024
Dead Man's Shoes: The Executor's Occupancy Dilemma
- Occupation of a deceased estate by an executor and/or beneficiary and taking occupancy rent
- Questions of conflict
- Applications to Court and Beddoe Applications to resolve occupancy disputes
Presented by Charles Wilson, Barrister, Inns of Court
Presenters
Kate Varcoe, Special Counsel, de Groots
Kate Varcoe has been practising for over 17 years in estate litigation, estate planning and estate administration. Her clients include high net worth individuals, primary producers, international residents, lawyers, accountants and business owners. Kate has been involved in many high profile estate disputes. She has acted in a range of proceedings relating to the validity of wills, interpretation of wills, Family Provision Applications, removal of executors, trust disputes and disputes concerning Enduring Powers of Attorney, among others. Before joining the firm, Kate spent several years working in medium to large law firms where she focused on structuring and planning for individuals and commercial enterprises and estate litigation. In more recent years, Kate has worked predominantly in estate litigation. Through Kate’s breadth of experience, she is able to provide de Groots’ clients with holistic solutions to their litigation, administration and financial planning needs, while understanding that each client’s circumstances are always unique. In 2019 Kate was recognised by legal benchmarking website, Doyle’s Guide, as one of Queensland’s Recommended Wills, Estates & Succession Planning Lawyers. In 2021 and 2022 Kate was also recommended by Doyle's as one of Queensland's Recommended Litigation Lawyers.
Charles Wilson, Barrister, Inns of Court
Charles Wilson is a barrister-at-law of the Supreme Courts of Queensland, New South Wales and the ACT. Charles is an expert in Private Client Law (including trusts and wills and estates). Admitted initially as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1988, and as a barrister in 2001, Charles brings a breadth and depth of experience in significant estate dispute resolution.