Dobbie’s Probate and Administration Practice, 6th edition

Part 1 Jurisdiction in probate and administration matters

 

 
Jurisdiction and administration

 
Administration without a gran

 
Necessity for probate

 

 
Part 2 Signing, witnessing, and providing a will

 

 
What is a will?

 
Requirements for making a will

 
Incorporating documents in a will

 
Corrections of wills by the Court

 
Two or more documents

 
Wills made subject to confitions or arrangements

 
Will list, mislaid, or accidentally destroyed

 
Codicils - documents which made changes to a will

 
Alterations and words crossed out in a will

 
Military or seagoing persons

 
Revocation, revival, and statutory modification of wills

 
Wills made by those living overseas

 

 
Part 3 Presumption of death and survivorship

 

 
 Presumption and proof of death

 

 
Part 4 Office of executor or administrator
 

 
Who can be appointed executor?

 
How an executor is appointed?

 
Appointment by implication and according to the tenor of the will

 
Limitation of office of executor

 
Conditional appointment of executor with substituted executor

 
Revocation of appointment

 
Disharge of removal of executor or administrator

 
Death of an executor or administrator after grant of administration

 
Acceptance, refusal, or renunciation of appointment

 
Protection of administrator

 

 
Part 5 Practice of Court in its administration

 

 
Practice to obtain probate in common form

 

 
Part 6 Intestacy and letters of adminstration

 

 
Letters of administration - jurisdiction

 
Grant of letters of administration and general rules

 
Discretionary grants

 
Grant of administration to a stranger

 

 
Part 7 Administration with will annexed

 

 
Grant of letters of administation with will annexed

 
Incompetence of executor by reason of minority -administration during minority

 

 
Part 8 Practice as to grant of letters of administration on intestacy

 

 
Letters of administration on intestacy - practice

 
Security for administration

 

 
Part 9 Michellaneous applications

 

 
Overseas executor or applicant

 
Grants where executor incompetent

 
Administration pending legal proceedings

 
Administration ad colligenda bona

 
Administration during absence

 
Administration de bonis non (partly administered estates)

 
Inventory and accounts

 
Caveats

 
Recall of probate or letters of administration

 
Resealing overseas grants in New Zealand

 
Overseas recognition of New Zealand grants

 
Trustee corporations

 
Shape of documents to be filed

 
Fees of Court

 

 
Part 10 Probate in solemn form

 

 
Practice - probate in solemn form

 

 
Part 11 Insolvent estates

 

 
Additional chapter on validation of wills

 
Insolvent Deceased Estates

 

 
Part 12      Extracts from statute and rules

 
Status of children act 1969, ss5A-6D

 
Rules 632-664, High Court Rules

 
Appendix Precedent Forms