When implemented, the company said in a statement, the newly acquired WillNotice technology will enable InfoTrack clients to be notified when any of their clients, executors or beneficiaries need to be contacted in relation to a death.

Speaking about the acquisition, InfoTrack CEO John Ahern (pictured) said it formed part of the company’s strategic plan to “replicate the success we’ve had in property law and conveyancing” in the family law, wills, estates and probate spaces.

“With Australia’s ageing population climbing, the business of wills, estates and probate is a growing area of practice,” he noted.

“In June 2019, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that the number of people aged 85 years and over increased by 117.1 per cent over the last two decades, compared with a total population growth of 34.8 per cent over the same period. InfoTrack is currently developing multiple market-first solutions to help lawyers with achieving increased efficiencies in these growing practice areas.”

New Zealand country manager Dennis Wade added: “WillNotice already has steady take-up in New Zealand. We’re excited about connecting it to the InfoTrack platform, initially offering it to our New Zealand clients and integrating it to our partner practice management systems.”

Stuart Bale, who founded WillNotice in 2017 via the New Zealand Law Society, said he was “very excited” to partner with InfoTrack.

“My goal when I built this solution was to make it easier for lawyers to know when to contact a client about a death notice, and from there, I wanted to prove the tech worked and build adoption of the product,” he said.

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Mr Bale will work in conjunction with Mr Ahern to provide advisory support to InfoTrack’s New Zealand and Australian teams.