Linda Hart is an experienced Wills & Estates lawyer and is passionate about delivering practical advice that is easy for her clients to understand.
Her experience covers a range of activities in succession law and litigation, including:
Wills & Powers of Attorney
Applications for Probate and Letters of Administration
Testator’s Family Maintenance claims
Estate litigation
Estate administration
Linda also has extensive experience in litigation having worked at a number of top tier firms where she ran several large and high profile litigation matters. She has acted in numerous matters in the Supreme, County and Federal Courts.
Recent Experience
Acting on behalf of an executor to successfully remove a co-executor.
Acting on behalf of stepchildren in a successful family provision claim from their step father’s estate.
Acting for beneficiaries against executors for misappropriation of the deceased’s money.
Acting for clients in contested probate applications.
Acting for a client in a proprietary estoppel claim where the executor of the deceased’s estate was forced to uphold the deceased’s promise to give the property to our client.
Relaxation
Is an enthusiastic runner and enjoys training for marathons and half marathon
Enjoys playing golf and tennis
Favourite cocktail is a negroni and gin & tonic
Memberships
Victoria Women Lawyers- involved in the Networking Committee
