Chapter 01 General Considerations — Estate Planning; Validity of Will, Requirements for; Capacity; Family Provision; Concealment of Will; Order to Produce Will
Chapter 02 Drafting a Will Using These Precedents; Taking Instructions and Structuring a Will
Chapter 03 Commencement and Testimonium; Wills for Assets in Foreign Countries
Chapter 04 Revocation Clauses
Chapter 05 Directions as to Disposal and use of the Body; Enduring Power of Attorney; Appointment of Enduring Guardian; Directions as to Undue Prolongation of Life
Chapter 06 Deaths — Simultaneous or Near-Simultaneous; Presumption of Death; Order of Deaths Clauses; Intermediate Income
Chapter 07 Children; Adopted, Surrogate and Ex-Nuptial Children; Guardianship
Chapter 08 Will Made in Contemplation of Marriage; The Effect of Divorce
Chapter 09 Provision for Spouse or Partner
Chapter 10 Appointment of Executors
Chapter 11 Payment of Executors: Gifts in Lieu of Payment; Gifts to Be Independent of Acting as Executor or Trustee
Chapter 12 Executor’s Right to Buy Trust Property
Chapter 13 Solicitors to be Employed by Executors
Chapter 14 Family Provision; Financial Agreements — Prenuptial, Nuptial and Postnuptial
Chapter 15 Taxes and Duties
Chapter 16 Releases
Chapter 17 Life Insurance Policies and Superannuation
Chapter 18 Gift of Whole Estate to Executors on Trust
Chapter 19 Pecuniary Legacies
Chapter 20 Personal Property
Chapter 21 Shares and other Interests in Respect of a Limited Company; Appointment of Directors
Chapter 22 Real Property
Chapter 23 Specific Gift of Property Subject to Mortgage or Charge; Locke King’s Act
Chapter 24 Annuities and Protective Trusts
Chapter 25 Trusts
Chapter 26 Life Interests, Including Occupation of Matrimonial Home, Substitutionary Provisions, Apportionment and Powers of Appointment
Chapter 27 Residuary Gifts, and Gifts of the Whole Estate
Chapter 28 Gifts to Charities and Incorporated or Unincorporated Bodies
Chapter 29 Powers of Executors and Trustees
Chapter 30 Codicils
Chapter 31 Attestation
Chapter 32 Backing Sheet
Chapter 33 Contracts as to Dispositions by Will; Mutual Wills
Appendix A — Most Used Forms
Appendix B — Model Wills
Appendix C — International Convention: Hague Conference on Private International Law