Jacinta Watkins

Keynote Speaker – Collaborative Stream

Partner – Deceased Estate & Estate Planning at ALA Law

Jacinta Watkins is a Partner specialising in Wills and Estates and Estate Litigation, with deep experience in estate planning, probate, and contested matters. She advises on family provision claims, probate disputes, and will challenges, while also guiding executors and administrators through the estate process with clarity and care.

A trained Collaborative Estates and Family Law Practitioner, Jacinta is committed to resolution over conflict. She brings both strategic insight and empathy to her practice, helping clients create estate plans that protect their wishes, preserve family relationships, and provide peace of mind.

Preventing Disputes

Learn how collaborative estate planning can reduce conflict and protect family relationships before disputes escalate.

Practical Tools

Gain hands-on strategies and frameworks for using collaborative processes to resolve estate disputes effectively.

Protecting Legacies

Understand how to secure client wishes while minimising stress, cost, and the emotional toll on families.

War-Torn or Watertight? Playing the Game of Life: How Family-Inclusive Collaborative Estate Planning Prevents Disputes

Estate disputes don’t begin after death – they begin with well-intentioned planning built on assumptions and best guesses about family dynamics.

In this immersive, interactive session, participants step inside a re-imagined Game of Life to explore how everyday estate-planning scenarios can quietly set families on a path toward either harmony or conflict. Guided by an interdisciplinary team – estate planning and disputes lawyers, a financial adviser and a communication coach – you’ll experience how family-inclusive, collaborative planning addresses the legal, financial and human realities that traditional siloed planning often overlooks.

This is not another panel session. It’s a live, participatory experience that reveals how collaboration before death can be the most powerful form of dispute prevention.

Game Over or New Beginnings? Playing the Game of Death workshop: How an Interdisciplinary, No-Litigation Framework Reimagines Estate Dispute Resolution

When someone dies, estate disputes are rarely just about the estate. They are about grief, relationships, power and fear – and traditional dispute resolution often makes those dynamics worse.

In this immersive follow-on to Playing the Game of Life, participants step into the Game of Death to experience how estate conflicts unfold after loss – and how an interdisciplinary Collaborative Practice team can fundamentally change the outcome. Through a live scenario, audience decision-points and facilitated discussion, this session shows why lawyers working alone are no longer enough, and why estate disputes need teams, not courtrooms.

Expect insight, interaction and a powerful re-imagining of what resolution can look like after death.