Meet our managers . . .
CARRIE-ANNE SMITH ⚜️ Estates Manager
ACT & NSW probate and administration
Carrie-Anne is highly skilled in all aspects of estate administration, including:
● Applications for grants of probate and letters of administration;
● Transmission of properties to executors and beneficiaries;
● Transfer and/or sale of shareholdings;
● Claiming super, life insurance, and death benefits;
● Calculating and distributing estate funds
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Carrie-Anne Smith
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Carrie-Anne's qualifications and experience
Carrie-Anne joined KJB Law’s probate and estate-administration team in 2017 after relocating to Canberra from central west NSW. She currently works alongside our principal Andrew Freer and associate Olivia Kordaris managing the estate files.
With more than 35 years’ experience in the legal industry, Carrie-Anne has also been a paralegal in other areas, including personal injury and civil litigation, family law and criminal law.
Throughout her career, Carrie-Anne has gained vast experience working with many experienced lawyers, from small country businesses to large corporate firms in NSW and Victoria.
She understands that losingVibha is a New South Wales-licensed conveyancer and she joined KJB Law in 2021, with many years of experience in conveyancing under her belt.
She arrived in Australia in 2014, and quickly adopted real estate as her field of special interest.
In 2023, she passed the Conveyancing Law and Practice course at Macquarie University and has been admitted to work as a licensed conveyancer in New South Wales.
a loved one can be an extremely emotional time and performing an executor role may sometimes seem overwhelming and daunting.
Working closely with Andrew and Olivia, Carrie-Anne’s extensive experience in probate and estate administration enables her to guide clients throughout the entire process, ensuring the efficient and timely administration of the estate from beginning to end.
Carrie-Anne is also a registered Justice of the Peace in the ACT and NSW.
Other interests
In her spare time, Carrie-Anne enjoys travelling and socialising with friends.
But her favourite times are spent with her adult daughters and she especially enjoys school holidays when her granddaughter, Miss Hallie, comes to stay.