Heads Up: Your Wedding Will Invalidate your Will

When you get married, things change. Some of them you have a choice about - like whether you'll change your name - others you don't because they are covered by a law, for example the fact that marrying an Australian citizen does not give anyone an automatic right to Australian citizenship, or because they involve a flow-on from your change in legal status from not-married to married.

The government pamphlet Happily Ever ... Before and After, that every celebrant has to give to every person getting married in Australia, provides the following advice about Wills:

Making a Will
Marriage will invalidate any previous wills unless your will clearly shows you were planning this marriage when you made it. It is important that you make a new will when your personal cirucmstances change. This ensures that you have a valid will that gives effect to your intentions about how you want your assets to be distributed in the even of your death. A solicitor can help you make or change your will.

What does that mean?

Getting married will cancel your will. So you will need to make a new will after you are married.

But there is a way to make a will before your wedding that will remain valid so that you are covered without a break. You will need to see a solicitor for help with that, and the will needs to make it clear that you were planning to marry (and to whom).
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