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WILLS ACT 1997 - SECT 50

Who may see a will?

A person who has possession and control of a will, a revoked will or a purported will of a deceased person must allow the following persons to inspect and make copies of the will (at their own expense)—

        (a)     any person named or referred to in the will, whether as beneficiary or not;

        (b)     any person named or referred to in any earlier will as a beneficiary;

        (c)     any spouse of the testator at the date of the testator's death;

S. 50(d) amended by No. 27/2001 s. 3(Sch. 1 item 14.4).

        (d)     any domestic partner of the testator;

        (e)     any parent, guardian or children of the deceased person;

        (f)     any person who would be entitled to a share of the estate if the deceased person had died intestate;

        (g)     any parent or guardian of a minor referred to in the will or who would be entitled to a share of the estate of the testator if the testator had died intestate;

        (h)     any creditor or other person who has a claim at law or in equity against the estate of the deceased person and who produces evidence of that claim.

S. 50A inserted by No. 11/2021 s. 87.



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