DOES MARRIAGE INCLUDING SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AFFECT YOUR WILL?
Marriage can result in a Will or parts of it being automatically revoked.
If a person marries after making a Will, it will be revoked with exceptions including:
· gifts in the Will from a person to a spouse who they marry are not revoked;
· an appointment as executor or whom the testator is married to at the time of his or her death is not revoked.
Same-sex marriage in Australia has been allowed since 9 December 2017. The same laws apply in relation to Wills of same-sex couples. A same-sex marriage may make a past Will invalid subject to the exceptions mentioned above. [...]