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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2006 - SECT 492

Deceased estates—law practice under management

    (1)     The manager for a law practice must cooperate with the legal personal representative of a deceased legal practitioner associate of the practice for the orderly winding up of the estate.

    (2)     The manager is not, in the exercise of powers and duties as manager, a legal personal representative of the deceased legal practitioner associate.

    (3)     Subsection (2) does not prevent the manager from exercising powers or duties as a legal personal representative if otherwise appointed as representative.

    (4)     Subject to subsections (1) and (2) and to the terms of the manager's appointment, if the manager was appointed before the death of the legal practitioner associate, the manager's appointment, powers and duties are not affected by the death.



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