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A successful Queensland business woman has become embroiled in a bitter inheritance dispute with her sister, reports the Courier Mail.

A man has failed in his attempt to claim a share of his late father’s estate, the Sydney Morning Herald has reported.

Too many people across Australia have yet to take the important step of writing a Will.

A north shore doyenne’s daughter, who was left out of her mother’s will because of favouritism, has successfully sued her younger sister in order to land herself a portion of her mother’s $2 million estate.

In a case described as ‘the first of its kind’ by NSW Supreme Court judge Geoff Lindsay, 3 aboriginal sisters have won an appeal to be given access to the Estate of their half-brother, who died without leaving a Will. MP Linda Burney has successfully plead with a NSW Supreme Court Judge to rule in favour of three of her Aboriginal friends, who were looking to access their half-brother’s $200,000 Estate. Their brother, Mr. Howard Stanley Wilson was a member of the Stolen Generation, and was adopted by a white family in a ‘forced adoption’ shortly after his birth. Ms. Burney addressed a letter to the court, seeking to ensure that the women would inherit their half-brother’s Estate, in front of the members of the white family that adopted, and raised him. Ms. Burney, the first Aboriginal to be elected to the Australian House of Representatives, was a member of the NSW parliament that amended succession law, the changes to which allowed the sisters to make the claim in the first place.