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Under NSW legislation, stepchildren are not eligible to challenge wills. As they are not direct blood relatives to the deceased, stepchildren can't apply to the court for provision and will have to take a slightly different legal path to access the estate of a deceased parent.
Inheritance laws, called the rules of intestacy, don't recognise step-children. If you would like your step-children to inherit from your estate, but you don't make a will expressing these wishes, then your step-children have no automatic right to inherit from your estate.
Yes. A step child is entitled to contest their step parent's will (or if there is no will, the intestacy rules) by bringing a claim under the Inheritance Act and we have recently succeeded in just such a claim, winning the step child's case at trial.
However, new laws recently introduced in Western Australia one of the last Australian states to have such a provision mean that step children can now challenge a will if they feel it doesn't adequately provide for their needs, like housing or education.
Under current legislation within most states in Australia, stepchildren are not treated the same as biological children when it comes to wills, inheritance, and claiming from the estate of a deceased parent and this can leave a tricky grey area when it comes to inheritance law.
Under New South Wales family provision legislation Step-children are not specifically mentioned as eligible persons, however they may be able to make a claim in certain circumstances, for example, if they are a member of the deceased person's household at the relevant time.
Inheritance laws, called the rules of intestacy, don't recognise step-children. If you would like your step-children to inherit from your estate, but you don't make a will expressing these wishes, then your step-children have no automatic right to inherit from your estate.
As this list shows, succession legislation in Queensland explicitly defines a child to include any child of the deceased, including a stepchild. As such, a stepchild can legally contest a will in Queensland, regardless of their age, student status or dependence on the deceased.
A stepchild who feels that their stepparent treated them unfairly in their will can contest the will through an application to the jurisdiction's Supreme Court. If the application is successful, the court can order a redistribution of the deceased estate to make an appropriate provision for the claimant.