How your family business can most easily be put at risk by non-trading issues
Most family businesses are operated within complex structures such as family trusts or companies… and often a combination of these. Most of these business structures still provide potential tax...
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Will the Family Court Order that a child must be immunised?
Immunisation of a child is an issue relevant to Parental Responsibility under the Family Law Act and the Family Court therefore has the power to make Orders that a...
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What happens to real property upon death, when it is owned with another person?
Real property can be, for example, a house, land or commercial premises. For the purposes of this article let’s call real property, “property”. There are two ways you can...
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The role of Family Reports in Family Law matters
When parents are before a Court seeking Orders regarding arrangements for their children the Judge will often Order a Family Report. Family Reports are written by Family Consultants who...
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Do you know the effect of divorce or marriage on your Will
Do you know the effect of divorce or marriage on your Will, Power of Attorney and Appointment of Enduring Guardian documents? Your Will and divorce Divorce revokes any benefit...
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Preventing the preventable and preserving your insurance cover
Periodically I write stories in our newsletter about real life commercial disasters which are so easily preventable but which have a habit of recurring with such frustratingly monotonous regularity...
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Back to basics for insurers in Australia ‘general rules of construction’ apply
In November 2010, the High Court of Australia issued it’s decision in Selected Seeds Pty Ltd v QBEMM Pty Ltd. QBEMM, Selected Seeds’ insurer, had earlier declined to pay...
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It depends on what you say – not what you mean
To every lawyer who comes under my supervision, I commence our working relationship by giving a little address. I say that the single most important weapon in the armoury...
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Supply Contracts and Terms of Trade
Many businesses categorise themselves as suppliers suppliers of raw products, finished goods or even services. Fewer businesses categorise themselves as receivers of goods or services. It follows that a...
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A caveatable interest can be created by an Agreement containing the property owner’s consent
There has been a recent decision in the Supreme Court of New South Wales in Bellissimo v. JCL Investments Pty Limited NSWSC 1260 (2 November 2009) which examined...
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