Money and inheritance can bring out tensions in the best of families, and family fights can become exhausting and destructive.

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Donal Griffin, a Sydney estate lawyer at Legacy Law and family trust adviser, often reminds me that one of the big flashpoints is the discretionary family trust. Often, they work well for a couple, but once the next generation comes along, things get tricky. Imagine being told in your fifties that you now have to run a trust with your brothers and sisters - it's no surprise sparks fly.

Court cases show how judges apply a black-letter approach when interpreting trust deeds. Yet these deeds are often signed without muc

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