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1 Published Articles 2014 What s New In Succession Law Proctor Vol 34 No. 10 November 2014 What s New In Succession Law Proctor Vol 34 No. 9 October 2014 What s New In Succession Law Proctor Vol 34 No. 8 September 2014 What s New In Succession Law Proctor Vol 34 No. 7 August 2014 What s New In Succession Law Proctor Vol 34 No. 6 July 2014 What s New In Succession Law Proctor Vol 34 No. 5 June 2014

2 What s New In Succession Law Proctor Vol 34 No. 4 May 2014 What's New In Succession Law - Proctor Vol 34 No. 3 April 2014 Divorce Without Capacity STEP Journal March 2014 What's New In Succession Law - Proctor Vol 34 No. 2 March 2014 What's New In Succession Law - Proctor Vol 34 No 1 February 2014 Assessment of Mental Capacity of Prospective Clients - MasterCast Podcast Series Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) January 2014 Co-Presented with Rod Genders Specialist lawyer at South Australia's oldest law firm Genders and Partners 2013 Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin - Estate of affairs: General editors Column

3 December 2013 What's New In Succession Law - Proctor Vol 33 No. 11 December 2013 What's New In Succession Law - Proctor Vol 33 No. 10 November 2013 Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin November 2013 Threesome - Estate Planning And The Third Party Divorce Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin - Estate of Affairs: General Editors' Column November 2013 Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin - Estate of Affairs: General Editors' Column October 2013

4 Ipso Facto - Mental Illness and Testamentary Capacity Gold Coast District Law Association October 2013 What's New In Succession Law - Proctor Vol 33 No. 9 October 2013 Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin - Estate of Affairs: General Editors' Column September 2013 What's New In Succession Law - Proctor Vol 33 No. 8 September 2013 Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin - Estate of Affairs: General Editors' Column August 2013 General Editors' column - Estate of Affairs Victorian Law Institute Journal August Clients, Capacity and Court Proceedings Law Institute of Victoria August 2013

5 What's New in Succession Law - Proctor Vol. 33 No. 7 August 2013 Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin Vol 16 Issue 1 Practice note and commentary from the General Editors - Informal Wills Estate of Affairs - General Editors' Column July 2013 What's New in Succession Law - Proctor Vol. 33 No. 6 July 2013 What's New in Succession Law - Proctor Vol. 33 No. 5 June 2013 Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin Vol 15 issue 10 - Estate of Affairs: General Editors' column May 2013

6 Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin vol 15 issue 9 - Powers of Attorney and Claims Against Deceased Estates Lexis Nexis May 2013 Proctor Vol 33 No. 4 - Overstepping the Fiduciary Mark May 2013 Article by Tina Cockburn & Christine Smyth What s New In Succession Law - Proctor Vol 33 No. 4 May 2013 What's New In Succession Law - Proctor Vol 33 No. 3 April 2013 Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin Volume 15 Issue 8 - Estate of Affairs: General Editors' column April 2013 Ipso Facto Gold Coast District Law Association Why solicitors cannot simply sign off on documents! April 2013

7 Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin, Vol 15 Issue 7 - Estate of Affairs: General Editors' column March 2013 Ipso Facto Gold Coast District Law Association March 2013 Dangers of Will Kits & Notes Ipso Facto - Family Law & Superannuation Validity of a Death Benefit Nomination Gold Coast District Law Association January Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin - Practice note from General Editors: estate proceeds December, 2012 Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin - One with the lot power of attorney, joint tenancy, breach of fiduciary duties and equitable claim for account December, 2012 Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin - Estate of affairs: General editors column

8 December, 2012 Christine Smyth LL.B, Grad Dip LP, Cdec, T.E.P. MAICD, MQLS Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin - Estate of affairs: General editors column November 5, 2012 Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin - The Curious Case of Pistorino v Connell November 5, 2012 QLS - Succession Law in 3D - Death, Divorce & Dementia November 2, 2012 Swearing Affidavits Ipso Facto October, 2012 One With The Lot Ispo Facto October, 2012 QLS Succession Law - Witnessing affidavits outside Australia Qld Law Society

9 October 31, 2012 STEP (Qld) - Powers of Attorney Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (Qld) October 23, 2012 STEP - A Guide to Probate Applications Society of Estate and Estate Practitioners (Qld) October 16, 2012 Co-Authored with Angela Cornford-Scott, Director degroots Wills & Estate Lawyers Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin - The First Church of Christ Scientist, Brisbane, as Trustee v The Attorney-General for the Queensland [2012] QSC 246; BC September 27, 2012 Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin - Estate of affairs: General editors column September 27, 2012 Estate of Affairs: General Editors' Column Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin - August 28, 2012 Lawyers in Queensland A STEP ahead Proctor Magazine August 2012 Vol.32 No.7

10 Alkaline Hydrolysis Proctor Magazine - July 2012 Queensland Registered Relationships - Briefing note for STEP members Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners July 2012 Co-Authored with Richard Williams, Barrister FPA Impact of longstanding estrangement: Keep v Bourke [2012] NSWCA 64 (5 April 2012) Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin - June 2012 Appealing an FPA - Durham v. Durham [2011] NSWCA 62 Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin - March 2012 Civil Partnerships Act 2011 Implications for Succession Lawyers Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin - February 2012 Wealth Structuring Analysis for Trust and Estate Practitioners STEP Journal - Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners 2012

11 2011 Casenote Tufala v Marsden & anor Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin - September 2011 Ashes Health Law Bulletin Is it an FPA? The Anshun Principle Proctor Magazine - Qld Law Society March 2011 Ashes- Who has the right to Possession? Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin - February 2011 Who has the right to make funeral arrangements? Health Law Bulletin - February Who has the right to make the funeral arrangements? Retirement & Estate Planning Bulletin - December 2010

12 A Guide to Statutory Wills Smokeball 2010 A Guide to Further and Better Provision Applications - Qld By Lawyers For Lawyers 2010 Presentations 2014 Marking Yourself Australian Women Lawyers 5 th Annual Conference, 3-5 October 2014 Adult Children Making Family Provision Claims TEN Annual Wills & Estates Conference, 21 & 22 August 2014 Professional Negligence in Family Provision Applications QLS/STEP A Century Strong: 100 years of Family Provision, July 2014 QLS Essentials: Will Drafting, QLS, 8 May 2014 Know Your Duties When You Are On The Spot, QLS Symposium, 21 & 22 March 2014 Executors Behaving Badly, TEN Succession Law CPD Essentials, 13 March 2014 Executors Behaving Badly, TEN Webinar, 4 March Tasmania Law Society Risk Management in Succession Law & the Case of Fischer v Howe November 2013 STEP Lunchtime Seminars, Brady Bunch & Addams Family, co-presented with Richard Williams, 1 October 2013 QLS, Paralegal Training Day, 28 August 2013

13 TEN Conference, What to do when executors behave badly, 23 August 2013 QCCA Presentation, 22 August 2013 Television Education Network Pty Ltd, Succession Law: CPD Essentials, Chair 7 March 2012 Legalwise, Estate Litigation, Preparation & Pitfalls for Solicitors in Deceased Estate Mediations 6 March 2013 Legalwise, Wills & Estates, Chair 27 February Legalwise Seminars, Ten Points in One Day, Deathbed and Divorce Issues 23 November 2012, 11 th Annual Succession Law Conference, Estate Planning in 3D: Death, Divorce and Dementia 2 3 November 2012 STEP, Trust Symposium, Organiser 7 September 2012, Ipswich Regional Workshop, Family Provision Application 11 July 2012 Robbins Watson, Family Law Information Evening, Intersection Family Law & Succession Law 11 July 2012, Annual Will Drafting and Estate Planning, S21 Statutory Wills for Persons Lacking Capacity 24 May 2012 STEP, Paralegal Training Day, Organiser and Presenter, Powers of Attorney in Queensland 23 May 2012 STEP, Paralegal Training Day, Organiser and Presenter, Probate Applications 16 May 2012 STEP, Roundtable, Civil Partnerships 10 May 2012 Gold Coast Justice of the Peace Association, Professional Development Workshop, Wills and Succession Law 9 May 2012, 50 th Anniversary Symposium, Power Plays for Succession Lawyers Funerals 31 March 2012, In Focus: Civil Partnership Skills for Family and Succession Lawyers 13 March 2012 Legalwise Seminars, Challenging Wills Seminar, Challenging Wills 6 March

14 , 9 th Annual Wills & Estates, Preparing Your Clients for Litigation 14 July Queensland CCA Conference 12 November 2010, Succession Law Conference 2010, Funeral Arrangements Who Has the Right to Decide 5 6 November 2010, 3 rd Annual Gold Coast Local Symposium, Chair May 2010, 8 th Annual Wills & Estates, Practical Aspects of Making an Application for a Statutory Will March 2010 Elder Law Conference 2010

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