Team Members

Sarah Camm

Associate
Sarah provides her clients with practical advice in all areas of succession planning and estate administration, with a particular focus on assisting clients engaged in estate disputes.

Sarah provides her clients with practical advice in all areas of succession planning and estate administration, with a particular focus on assisting clients engaged in estate disputes.

As an associate in Cooper Grace Ward’s private clients team, Sarah advises beneficiaries, executors and trustees on all aspects of estate and superannuation disputes, as well as general administration and estate planning issues.

Sarah uses her experience in estate disputes to ensure her clients understand the potential litigation risks at the succession planning stage, and provides pragmatic advice to limit the possibility of a dispute arising in future.

  • Solicitor – Supreme Court of Queensland, High Court of Australia
  • Bachelor of Laws (Honours)– University of Queensland
  • Bachelor of Journalism – University of Queensland
  • Member – STEP (Society of Estate and Trust Practitioners)
  • Doyles Guide – Rising Star (2022) – Wills, Estates and Succession Planning.
  • Preparing Wills, enduring powers of attorney and superannuation binding death benefit nominations
  • Applications for probate and letters of administration
  • Guiding executors and administrators through the administration of the estate
  • Assisting beneficiaries and executors in making or defending family provision applications
  • Advising clients on the validity of estate planning documents, including where there are questions about incapacity or influence, and the effect of informal Wills
  • Assisting in disputes between executors, and applications to remove an executor
  • Advising superannuation trustees on their obligations when paying a death benefit, and preparing applications to receive a death benefit on behalf of eligible beneficiaries (including executors)

Areas of Expertise

Publications

Do I have to go to mediation for my family provision application?

In this edition of It depends, associate Sarah Camm talks about whether you have to go to mediation for your family provision application.

Court rules trustee justified in paying death benefit, despite compliance issues and breach of trust

CGW has successfully acted in an application to the Supreme Court of NSW, with an SMSF trustee found to be justified in paying a death benefit despite compliance issues and breach of trust.

Text message to third party not sufficient to terminate de facto relationship for purpose of determining eligibility for death benefit

A recent Federal Court decision highlights the complexities surrounding de facto relationships when considering a person’s eligibility to receive superannuation death benefits.