We have a wealth of knowledge and experience in litigation from the point of negotiation and mediation through to court action and enforcement.
Our goal is very simple. We want to minimise risk for you. We do this by assessing your position and exploring all your available options. We then make recommendations so that you can achieve a desired outcome in a way that is cost-efficient.
The best option is to resolve a dispute amicably, however, that is not always possible. Sometimes we need to protect your rights and secure your interests. We can do this as we are well resourced and have significant experience in managing disputes at every stage.
We can help you with a range of litigation and dispute matters:
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All other litigation and disputes (subject to review)
Fraud
Thinking about challenging a Will?
Get an experienced estate lawyer now
RHC Solicitors have extensive experience in wills and estates, including contesting or challenging a Will. Our Queensland lawyers are strongly connected to prominent estate professionals and barristers and understand the complexities and requirements when it comes to the grounds to challenge or contest a Will.
Where a Will has been procured by fraud, it can be challenged. Fraud generally arises where a person has misled a Will maker to make the testamentary instrument through intentionally false statements or by failing to state relevant.
To prove fraud, a person must show the conduct arose in circumstances when the fraudster has either obtained a benefit under the Will or did so in order to prevent someone else receiving something under the Will (for example, a child or alternatively a dependent).
There are many examples at law of fraud, which has resulted in setting aside the Will such as:
Where the testator has signed a document which they did not believe to be a Will
Where the testator has been misled about something in the Will
Where the testator was informed the wrong thing at the time of drafting the Will with the intention to deceive them
How RHC Solicitors help
We have experienced will and estate lawyers across Queensland. We deal with complex estates and representation in the Supreme Court of Queensland every day and have handled thousands of challenges to a Will or otherwise contesting an estate.
We're affordable lawyers and often offer fixed fee quotes so that you know exactly what is ahead.