Succession planning
- Explainer
- Real life
The final paper trail: How to make your executor’s job easier
Where there’s a will, there’s an executor – the person who manages your estate when you’ve died. Who do you choose for this important role, and how can you help smooth their way?
- Madeleine Heffernan
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- Courts
Siblings in ‘Succession-style’ feud over Melbourne billionaire’s estate
The four children of petroleum baron Nick Andrianakos are locked in a legal dispute over their inheritance, amid claims their father had two different wills at the time of his death in Greece.
- Cameron Houston and Carla Jaeger
- Exclusive
- Courts
A son’s ‘early inheritance’ and a family feud over $20m properties
A trio of siblings ended up in a Sydney court after their father gave his youngest child a multimillion-dollar gift before his death.
- Michaela Whitbourn
Ice hockey billionaires sued by family member in feud over fortune
The sprawling empire of the Aquilini family includes Vancouver’s professional hockey team. But an ugly legal brawl is tearing the clan apart.
- Thomas Seal
Tycoon’s fortune makes six grandchildren billionaires
The handover of the inheritance marks an unusual transfer of assets for an ultrarich Asian family that has skipped one generation.
- Filipe Pacheco and Pui Gwen Yeung
- Opinion
- Murdoch family case
What’s to become of Murdoch’s corporate orphans?
The middle-aged trio – especially James and Elisabeth – don’t possess the obscurity gene, having been members of arguably the most talked about family outside the British royals.
- Elizabeth Knight
- Analysis
- Murdoch family case
Captain Lachlan may be News Corp’s master and commander but troubled waters lie ahead
While Murdoch snr’s anointed heir is likely to stick to the same course, the media giant must brace for shifting consumer habits and economic headwinds.
- Michael Koziol
- Updated
- Billionaires
Lachlan, Rupert Murdoch ‘pleased’ as succession war ends with $5b buyout
The Murdoch family has reached a deal cementing Lachlan Murdoch as the successor to the family empire, bringing an end to the decades-long battle against his siblings.
- Calum Jaspan and Colin Kruger
- Opinion
- Opinion
How ‘living inheritances’ are changing the lives of adult ‘kids’
Almost 20 per cent of Australians have inherited some form of wealth from a family member.
- Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
‘Wolf in cashmere’: Billionaire’s luxury empire is facing a crisis
Bernard Arnault’s company owns some of the world’s best known luxury brands, and it made him, at one time, the richest person in the world. Now he is under increasing pressure.
- The Economist