Queensland Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 510

510 Deceased estates

(1) It is the duty of the manager for a law practice to cooperate with the legal personal representative relating to a deceased legal practitioner associate of the practice for the orderly winding-up of the estate.

(2) The manager is not, in the performance of functions or the exercise of powers as manager, a legal personal representative of the deceased legal practitioner associate, but nothing in this subsection prevents the manager from performing functions or exercising powers as a legal personal representative if otherwise appointed as representative.

(3) Subject to subsections (1) and (2) and to the terms of the manager’s appointment, if the manager was appointed before the death of the legal practitioner associate, the manager’s appointment, functions and powers are not affected by the death.