Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Chair
Timothy Orr, Partner, Martelli McKegg
Learning Objectives:
- Understand who can claim under the Family Protection Act
- Learn how to reduce the risk of successful estate challenges
Family Protection Act 1955 Considerations When Advising New Zealand Will-Makers
- Who may bring a claim?
- The nature of the moral duty owed by the willmaker. How far does it go?
- The factors which a Court will consider if a claim is made
- Steps a willmaker can take to avoid or minimise the risk of a claim
Presented by Brian Burke, Partner, Harmans Lawyers
Presenters
Timothy Orr, Partner, Martelli McKegg
Timothy is a partner specialising in trusts, estates, property and commercial law. Originally from Northern Ireland, Timothy graduated from the University of Dundee with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) in 2008. He assisted an NGO at the UNHCR in Geneva and then ran a legal aid team in Mombasa, Kenya providing legal advice on a wide range of criminal and family matters. Upon returning to the UK, Timothy worked on a high profile Public Inquiry under a former Court of Appeal Judge. Arriving in New Zealand in 2010, Timothy qualified as a lawyer in New Zealand and was a manager for ADLSI responsible for overseeing a wide range of legal forms and precedents including the standard Agreement for Sale and Purchase of Real Estate and the Deed of Lease. Timothy also worked closely with various Ministries, the Law Commission and the Courts on a wide range of law reform issues, particularly those relating to trusts and property law. Timothy then worked as a Senior Solicitor in a well-established medium sized law firm in Auckland specialising in trusts, estate and property law.
Brian Burke, Partner, Harmans Lawyers
Brian is a partner at Harmans Lawyers and has an extensive practice in estate and trust litigation which includes providing advice to dedicated estates and elder law departments within the firm. He has acted in a large number of Family Protection Act cases over the last 30 years. Brian has been invited to speak about estate and trust disputes on numerous occasions to both the legal and medical professions.
