About Hannah Kulaga
Hannah is an Associate in our Wills & Estates team, with a particular focus on estate litigation.
She advises clients on all aspects of succession law, from estate planning through to the administration of deceased estates. Hannah’s primary area of practice is contested estates, where she regularly acts in complex and high-value disputes.
Hannah has extensive experience in estate litigation, estate planning and estate administration matters across Queensland and New South Wales, including involvement in one of Queensland’s leading informal will cases. She represents clients in the
Magistrates Court, District Court, Supreme Court and Federal Court.
Her experience includes advising and acting in relation to:
- Family provision applications (disappointed beneficiary claims)
- Will challenges, including disputes involving testamentary capacity, undue influence, knowledge and approval, fraud and forgery
- Informal wills, including electronic, handwritten and unsigned wills
- Superannuation and life insurance disputes
- Disputes between joint executors or administrators
- Disputes between beneficiaries and executors or administrators
- Executor and trustee appointment and removal applications
- Estate planning and estate administration
- Asset protection strategies
- Testamentary trusts
Hannah is also a published author, having written several articles for the award-winning STEP Journal, the international journal of the global professional body for trust and estate practitioners.
Clients value Hannah’s calm, empathetic approach to what are often sensitive and stressful matters. She is known for providing practical, commercially focused advice and for explaining complex legal issues and processes in a clear and accessible way.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Laws – University of Queensland
- Graduate Diploma Legal Practice – College of Law
Professional Licences and Appointments
- Admitted to the High Court of Australia
- Admitted to the Supreme Court of Queensland
- Principal Practicing Certificate – Queensland Law Society
Professional Memberships
- Queensland Law Society
Publications
- To follow or not to follow, STEP Journal – 2013
- Unborn losers, STEP Journal – 2014
- Just deserts, STEP Journal – 2015
- Hands off, STEP Journal – 2016
- The line of duty, STEP Journal – 2017
