Family Provision Claims

Gerard Malouf and Partners has an established track record of handling Family Provision Claims with the sensitivity and professionalism they deserve, and getting results. In one recent case, an adult son who had not been provided for by his deceased father was able to successfully contest his father’s Will and receive $75,000. While our client had no relationship with his father for the first 20 years of his life, the two had bonded later in life, after the son was finally able to locate his father. Our client also grew very close with his half brother, whose existence he discovered when he finally met his father. Being left out his father’s Will after this long reunification process hurt our client deeply. Our legal experts felt that an injustice had been committed and agreed to help the man on our “no win, no fee” basis.

At the behest of our client, our team drew up an affidavit with evidence of the relationship between the father and son, as well as information about the son’s current financial state. While the deceased’s estate disputed the amount of compensation that our client should have been eligible for, our team was able to negotiate a large lump sum for our client in an amount that was satisfactory to him and his wife.

In another recent case, our legal team was able to help a man who had received a portion of his late mother’s estate, but at a rate far lower than satisfactory. The man had spent many years caring for his aging parents and doing renovation work on the family home. As a result, he was left under the impression that he would inherit the property when his parents eventually passed. Instead, our client was dismayed to discover that he had only been left with a family provision of 8% of the estate, with the rest going to his two sisters who had contributed less to his parents’ care during their lifetime. Hurt, and looking for options, the man turned to the legal professionals at Gerard Malouf & Partners.

On our client’s behalf, we entered into mediation with the deceased’s estate, who countered that our client had been provided for with large sums of money during his parents’ lifetime, and in fact owed the estate approximately $600,000. Through mediation, we were able to extinguish our client’s debt entirely and then earn him a share of the profit from the sale of the home he had worked so hard on for years. While the process was extremely bitter, we stood by our client and delivered for him as promised. If you require assistance with a Family Provision Claim, reach out to the experts at Gerard Malouf & Partners today.