DIGEST OF LAW REFORM COMMISSION REFERENCES

88. Uniform succession laws

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Received:		5 May 1995
		This is a joint project being conducted by the National Committee for Uniform Succession Laws with all States and Territories under the direction of the Queensland Law Reform Commission.
		the law of wills family provision administration of estates of deceased persons intestacy
Issues Paper 10:		Uniform Succession Laws: The Law of Wills, February 1996
		[Also published by the Queensland Law Reform Commission, WP 46]
Report 85:		Uniform Succession Laws: The Law of Wills, April 1998
		Tabled in Parliament 30 June 1998
Legislative action:		Succession Bill 2006 (NSW) Wills Amendment Bill 2006 (WA) Succession Amendment Act 2006 (Qld) Wills Act 2000 (NT)
Note:		The Report of the National Committee on The Law of Wills has also been published, with some modification, by the Queensland Law Reform Commission, Report 52
Issues Paper 11:		Uniform Succession Laws: Family Provision, February 1996
		[Also published by the Queensland Law Reform Commission, WP 47]
Judicial Citation:		Stiles v Joseph (NSW SC, No 4213/93, Master Macready, 16 December 1996, unreported) at 16
Report 110:		Uniform Succession Laws: Family Provision, May 2005
		Tabled in the Legislative Assembly, 18 October 2005
Note:		The National Committee's Report and Supplementary Report on Family Provision have been published by the Queensland Law Reform Commission, Miscellaneous Paper 28, December 1997 and Report 58, July 2004.
Legislative Action:		Succession Amendment (Family Provision) Bill 2008 (NSW)
Discussion Paper 42:		Uniform Succession Laws: Administration of Estates of Deceased Persons, October 1999
Note:		The Discussion Paper by the National Committee on the Administration of Estates of Deceased Persons has also been published, in different format, by the Queensland Law Reform Commission, MP 37 (June 1999).
Issues Paper 21:		Uniform Succession Laws: Recognition of interstate and foreign grants of probate and letters of administration, May 2002
Note:		A more detailed discussion paper on the Recognition of Interstate and Foreign Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration has been published by the Queensland Law Reform Commission, WP 55 (December 2001)
Issues Paper 26:		Uniform Succession Laws: Intestacy, April 2005
Research Report 13:		I give, devise and bequeath: an empirical study of testators' choice of beneficiaries, February 2006
Report 116:		Uniform Succession Laws: Intestacy, April 2007 Released 23 July 2007
Note:		See previous references: Reference 11: Testator's family maintenance Reference 47: Wills: execution and revocation Reference 67: Wills for persons lacking will-making capacity