1. General considerations - estate planning, validity of will, requirements for; capacity, concealment of will; order to produce will
2. Drafting a will using these precedents; taking instructions and structuring a will
3. Commencement and testimonium; wills for assets in foreign countries
4. Revocation clauses
5. Directions as to disposal of the body; directions as to undue prolongation of life; enduring power of attorney
6. Deaths - simultaneous or near-simultaneous; presumption of death; order of deaths clauses; intermediate income
7. Children, adopted and ex-nuptial children; guardianship
8. Will made in contemplation of marriage and divorce
9. Provision for spouse or partner
10. Appointment of executors
11. Payment of executors: gifts in lieu of payment; gifts to be independent of acting as executor or trustee
12. Executor's right to buy trust property
13. Solicitors to be employed by executors
14. Family provision, financial agreements - prenuptial, nuptial and postnuptial
15. Taxes and duties
16. Releases
17. Life insurance policies and superannuation
18. Gift of whole estate to executors on trust
19. Pecuniary legacies
20. Specific gifts of personal property
21. Shares and other interests in respect of a limited company; appointment of directors
22. Gifts of real property
23. Specific gift of property subject to mortgage or charge; Locke King's Act
24. Annuities and protective trusts
25. Trusts
26. Life interest, including occupation of matrimonial home, substitutionary provisions, apportionment and powers of appointment
27. Residuary gifts, and gifts of the whole estate
28. Gifts to charities and incorporated or unincorporated bodies
29. Powers of executors and trustees
30. Codicils
31. Attestation
32. Backing sheet
33. Contracts as to dispositions by will; mutual wills.