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NSW Estate Lawyers Running online CPDs and a free Facebook group for lawyers who are doing estate planning documents, or estates, mostly in NSW but we welcome out of towners.

Have you tried to join the Facebook group, with no luck? That is because the robot is set up to reject applicants that ...
21/10/2026

Have you tried to join the Facebook group, with no luck? That is because the robot is set up to reject applicants that don't answer the questions.

Once you click "Join Group" you should see the option shown in the image, scroll down and answer the questions. The group is free, but the cost is answering the questions (and being a lawyer).

Just head over to groups and search for "NSW Estate Lawyers".

18/10/2026

Why aren't we centreing Powers of Attorney and aged care planning in our marketing and pricing? The work has been done, and is being done, to educate the client base about Wills and the danger of simple Wills. Who is talking about aged acre, capacity, and the 19,000 Giardiamship Tribunal matters that happen every year in NSW?





13/10/2026

Three tiered pricing can be used to relegate mirror wills to the lowest pricing range, and exclude more complicated drafting than that from the lowest price range. So yes, simple documents can have the lower price, but only simple documents.





If you are charging $900 for singles and $1,200 for couples then you are almost certainly giving a huge discount to coup...
09/10/2026

If you are charging $900 for singles and $1,200 for couples then you are almost certainly giving a huge discount to couples. They are not 20% or 30% more work.

Couples usually bring complications, even with mirror wills you have risks that you need to take into account (family provision, duress, does each of them know and approve or is one of them doing everything) a d you are either dealing with different questions from each of them, or a concern that one is not engaged with the process at all.





09/10/2026

Pricing communicates something to your clients. I think that the way we price couples assumes really simple situations, everything to spouse and children, no specific concerns or gifts. I doubt that is the reality for most of you anymore.

Instructions are getting more complex and so the prices go up, but when the prices go up are you putting them all up equally or are you revisiting the gap between singles and couples pricing?

This is difficult to figure out if your legal software provider won't let you set your own matter types (in the video I said legal service provider sorry). I have different matter types for singles and couples, so that I can track and price them according to their own trends. If your LSP won't let you do this then in fact it is up to you to either start paying attention to trends or perhaps to audit a few matters that you feel are typical couple, or typical single matters.





08/10/2026

You also need to think about this from a risk perspective, it isn’t just about the time that you spend drafting and re-drafting in a fixed price environment, it is also about your overall level of risk. Single clients would be mostly a lower risk group, there are fewer potential triggers, and your risk is also a cost. Are you properly pricing your risk?

https://www.janisconsults.com/news/couple-discount

Let's see if this system gives me the clarity that I seek ....
07/10/2026

Let's see if this system gives me the clarity that I seek ....


07/10/2026

Fixed prices and Estate Plans - why are we showing favouritism to couples?

Most firms are only charging 20% or 30% more for couples, but the riskiest and most difficult instructions almost always come from couples. I have some theories on why we do that but for now I just wanted to open with, why do we do that and what does it mean when we do that?

I am working on a blog post on this topic which will be shared as part of this week's NSW Estate Lawyers email. Next reel will be me thinking through why couple instructions are harder or riskier.





02/10/2026

We are nothing without our instructions. I know you know this, but please remember it when you get asked "a quick question". If the client is not willing to invest in giving you proper, complete instructions then you cannot assist. If the client insists on keeping it short then you cannot assist. You are not being difficult, you are not being expensive, they are not providing you with proper instructions.

01/10/2026

In this week's case we open with a familiar refrain -

Family provision applications frequently follow a familiar pattern. A partly or wholly disinherited child of the deceased makes a claim on the estate of their late parent saying they had a wonderful, close and loving relationship with the deceased, to whom they were devoted and with whom they spent much time. The principal resisting child of the deceased, who lived with and took care of the deceased, disputes what their sibling says. The resisting child says their brother or sister (as the case may be) lived their own separate life and seldom visited or helped the deceased and they did not (contrary to what they say) have a close relationship with their parent. Regularly there is a question as to whether the deceased parent was invited to a wedding or birthday or some other occasion of the claimant child.

So what could go so wrong that the court ends up using the word unethical in relation to the legal team not once, but twice? We look at that in the weekly email for NSW Estate Lawyers, which has just gone out. If you would like to join the mailing list you will get the last email (so this one) when you join.

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