Wills, Intestacies, Estates and Funerals

Contacts, Links and Resources

Contacts

Commonwealth Government

ATOlaw: the ATO Legal Data Base law.ato.gov.au/atolaw

Australian Organ Donor Register www.medicareaustralia.gov.au/organ

Australian Taxation Office:

1. Home Page www.ato.gov.au;
2. Information on Prescribed Private Funds www.ato.gov.au/nonprofit/content.aspx?doc=/content/20926.htm

Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) www.dva.gov.au

Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) National Office www.fahcsia.gov.au

Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia www.itsa.gov.au

Superannuation Complaints Tribunal www.sct.gov.au

ACT Government

ACT Coroners Court www.courts.act.gov.au/magistrates/courts/coroners_court

Public Trustee Office for the ACT www.publictrustee.act.gov.au

Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages www.ors.act.gov.au/community/births_deaths_and_marriages (online death certificate).

Registrar of Probates www.courts.act.gov.au

Registrar of Land Titles www.nt.gov.au/justice/bdm/land_title_office

Welfare Branch of the Office of Children, Youth and Family Support (part of the ACT Department of Housing and Community Services) www.dhcs.act.gov.au/ocyfs

Cemeteries and Funerals

ACT Department of Territory and Municipal Services www.tams.act.gov.au/live/cemeteries (information on cemeteries)

Canberra Public Cemeteries Board www.canberracemeteries.com.au

Funeral Directors The Yellow Pages of the ACT Telephone Directory list firms of Funeral Directors in Canberra, Queanbeyan, Yass and the local district.

Gungahlin Cemetery Bellenden Street, Mitchell ACT 2911

Hall Cemetery Telephone: (02) 6241 6086

Norwood Park Crematorium www.norwoodpark.com.au

Woden Cemetery (including Christ the Redeemer Mausoleum) Justinian Drive, off Yamba Drive, Woden ACT 2606

Other Contacts

Capital Region Community Foundation "Greatergood" (for the ACT region) www.greatergood.org.au

Community Foundations Gateway communityfoundations.philanthropy.org.au

Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal www.frrr.org.au

Philanthropy Australia www.philanthropy.org.au

Finding Statutes on the Web

It is easy to find legislation on the web. ACT statutes are available at: www.legislation.act.gov.au. Legislation in other jurisdictions is on State and Territory legislation websites, which are conveniently listed on the ComLaw site www.comlaw.gov.au, and on Austlii: www.austlii.edu.au.

Some reference texts are available online for a fee (noted in the list at Books and Statutes below).

Books and Statutes

HAJ Ford and WA Lee, Principles of the Law of Trusts, LBC Information Services, Sydney (available online).

Halsbury's Laws of Australia, loose-leaf, LexisNexis, Sydney Vol 24.

J Kessler and M Flynn, Drafting Trusts and Will Trusts in Australia, Lawbook Co, Sydney, 2008.

K Mason and LG Handler, Wills, Probate and Administration Service (NSW), loose-leaf, LexisNexis /Butterworths, Sydney (available online).

RS Geddes, CJ Rowland and Paul Studdert, Wills, Probate and Administration Law in New South Wales, LBC Information Services, Sydney 1996.

M Perkins and R Monaghan, Estate Planning: A Practical Guide for Estate and Financial Service Professionals, LexisNexis Butterworths Australia 2005.

CJ Rowland, Hutley's Australian Wills Precedents, 6th edn, LexisNexis, 2004 (7^th edn due 2009.

J de Groot and B Nicol, Family Provision in Australia, 3^rd edn, Butterworths LexisNexis Australia 2007.

AA Preece, Lee's Manual of Queensland Succession Law, 6th edn, Lawbook Co, Sydney, 2007.

All legislation referred to in this Chapter is ACT legislation unless otherwise indicated.