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Rebecca Edwards

Special Counsel
Rebecca is a superannuation, wills and estates lawyer at Cooper Grace Ward, with over 15 years’ experience.
+61 7 3231 2585
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Rebecca is a superannuation, wills and estates lawyer at Cooper Grace Ward, with over 15 years’ experience.

She has a keen interest in estate administration, estate disputes and superannuation, including self-managed superannuation funds and succession matters and is a member of the SMSF Association’s Professional Standards Committee.

Rebecca has significant experience assisting clients in matters involving superannuation, particularly SMSFs, as well as estate litigation and estate administration.
She is also able to assist clients in matters involving Enduring Powers of Attorney, capacity, Guardianship and Administration, and elder abuse. In addition, Rebecca spent a decade working in aged care and retirement villages before entering the legal profession. That experience, combined with her legal practice experience, is invaluable in assisting clients and their family with issues involving succession.

  • Solicitor – Supreme Court of Queensland and High Court of Australia
  • Bachelor of Laws (Honours) – Bond University
  • Master of Applied Wills and Estates – College of Law
  • Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice (Distinction)
  • NVQ 4 Aged Care Management
  • Member –Elder Law Committee – Queensland Law Society
  • Member – SMSF Association
  • SMSF Specialist Advisor –SMSF Association
  • Member of the Professional Standards Committee – SMSF Association
  • Member – Women in Super
  • Member – Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP)
  • Recommended – Leading Queensland Wills & Estates Litigation Lawyers – Doyle’s Guide 2025

SMSFs

  • Advising on a wide range of SMSF related issues including:
    • establishment, operation and wind up
    • succession planning and including about incapacity
    • payment of death benefits
    • SMSF related disputes.

Estate administration

  • Applications for Grants of probate and Grants of letters of administration (with or without a Will).
  • Routine and complex estate administration.

Estate disputes

  • Family provision applications.
  • Grants of Administration in solemn form.
  • Construction of Will applications.
  • Informal Wills and Statutory Wills.
  • Disputes regarding superannuation death benefits.
  • Advising on estate-related disputes involving Enduring Powers of Attorney.

Estate planning

  • Preparation of Wills (including those with testamentary trusts), Enduring Powers of Attorney, superannuation death benefit nominations and confidential memorandums of directions.

Elder law including guardianship and administration

  • Applications for the appointment of guardians or administrators for adults with impaired decision-making capacity (both contested and uncontested).
  • Applications regarding the validity of Enduring Powers of Attorney.
  • Advising in disputes regarding appropriateness of appointed decision makers.
  • Applications seeking declarations of capacity.
  • Providing advice on residential aged care agreements, retirement village agreements and manufactured home agreements.

Areas of Expertise

Estate planning
Superannuation law
Estate administration and disputes

Publications

Who, What, Where with Rebecca Edwards

Who, what, where with special counsel Rebecca Edwards. Hear how long she's been at Cooper Grace Ward Lawyers, what she would be doing if she wasn't working in law and what she loves about her job.

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Cooper Grace Ward recognised for excellence in Wills, Estates and Succession law

Doyles Guide has released its rankings for Wills, Estates, Estates Litigation and Succession Planning Lawyers and Law Firms in Queensland for 2025, and Cooper Grace Ward has once again performed exceptionally well.

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