WILL & ADMIN OF ESTATE: How can a letter found next to a dead body be a valid will in Australia?

Do you still make an application for grant of probate? Or should it by letters of administration?

I was told that there is new precedent that the law on making a valid will has become more linient? (Prove intention only?) Anyone know of this authority and where I can find it?

You need to read the WILLS Act and I don't have it available. However, if the will found next to the body complies with the Wills Act, then yes, it is valid.

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