View source for Appointment of personal representatives: order of priority for letters of administration: WILL ANNEXED


'''Queensland:'''
The descending order of priority: (a) trustee; (b) a life tenant; (c) remainderman; (d) another residuary beneficiary (e) a person otherwise entitled to all or part of the residuary estate, by full or partial intestacy (f) specific or pecuniary legatee (g) creditor or person acquiring entire beneficial interest under the will (h) anyone else the court may appoint.


'''South Australia:'''
The descending order of priority: (a) executor; (b) residuary devisee and/or  legatee in trust for any other person; (c) residuary devisee and/or legatee for life; (d) universal or residuary devisee and/or legatee or, where the residue is not wholly disposed of by the will, any person entitled to share in the residue not so disposed of or, subject to
Rule 35.03, the personal representative of any such person.


'''Tasmania:'''
May be granted to a devisee or legatee, and any such administration may be limited in any way the Court thinks fit. This provision is supplemented by the Rule 21 of Probate Rules 1936 (Tas), which prescribe an order of priority as follows: (a) residuary legatees or devisees in trust; (b) residuary legatees or devisees for life; (c) ultimate residuary legatees or devisees, or, where the residue is not wholly disposed of, the person entitled upon an Intestacy; (d) the legal personal representative of persons indicated in paragraph (c); (e) legatees, or devisees, or creditors; (f) contingent residuary legatees, or devisees, or contingent legatees or devisees, or persons having no interest in the estate who would have been entitled to a grant had the deceased died wholly intestate; (g) the Crown.


'''Western Australia:'''
Court may appoint an administrator of the estate of the deceased, or of any part thereof, and such administration may be limited as the Court thinks fit.