Dobbie’s Probate and Administration Practice, 6th edition

Part 1 Jurisdiction in probate and administration matters

 1 Jurisdiction and administration

 2 Administration without a gran

 3 Necessity for probate


 
 Part 2 Signing, witnessing, and providing a will

 4 What is a will?

 5 Requirements for making a will

 6 Incorporating documents in a will

 7 Corrections of wills by the Court

 8 Two or more documents

 9 Wills made subject to confitions or arrangements

 10 Will list, mislaid, or accidentally destroyed

 11 Codicils - documents which made changes to a will

 12 Alterations and words crossed out in a will

 13 Military or seagoing persons

 14 Revocation, revival, and statutory modification of wills

 15 Wills made by those living overseas


 
 Part 3 Presumption of death and survivorship

 16 Presumption and proof of death


 
 Part 4 Office of executor or administrator

 17 Who can be appointed executor?

 18 How an executor is appointed?

 19 Appointment by implication and according to the tenor of the will

 20 Limitation of office of executor

 21 Conditional appointment of executor with substituted executor

 22 Revocation of appointment

 23 Disharge of removal of executor or administrator

 24 Death of an executor or administrator after grant of administration

 25 Acceptance, refusal, or renunciation of appointment

 26 Protection of administrator


 
 Part 5 Practice of Court in its administration

 27 Practice to obtain probate in common form


 
 Part 6 Intestacy and letters of adminstration

 28 Letters of administration - jurisdiction

 29 Grant of letters of administration and general rules

 30 Discretionary grants

 31 Grant of administration to a stranger


 
 Part 7 Administration with will annexed

 32 Grant of letters of administation with will annexed

 33 Incompetence of executor by reason of minority -administration during minority

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

 34 Letters of administration on intestacy - practice

 35 Security for administration


 
 Part 9 Michellaneous applications

 35 Overseas executor or applicant

 36 Grants where executor incompetent

 37 Administration pending legal proceedings

 38 Administration ad colligenda bona

 39 Administration during absence

 40 Administration de bonis non (partly administered estates)

 41 Inventory and accounts

 42 Caveats

 43 Recall of probate or letters of administration

 44 Resealing overseas grants in New Zealand

 45 Overseas recognition of New Zealand grants

 46 Trustee corporations

 47 Shape of documents to be filed

 48 Fees of Court


 
 Part 10 Probate in solemn form

 49 Practice - probate in solemn form


 
 Part 11 Insolvent estates

 50 Additional chapter on validation of wills

 51 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