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Preparing your business for sale
Selling your business can be an exciting time and highly rewarding. The objective is to maximise the value of your business and avoid transaction fatigue that can occur from a…
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Perfect Time for Legal Business Check-up
The start of a new financial year is the perfect time to check you have all your legal ducks in a row for your business. We have survived the Covid…
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Granddaughter’s Challenge to Will Fails
Granddaughter’s Challenge to her Grandmother’s Will Fails in the NSW Court of Appeal On 21 June 2022, the NSW Court of Appeal delivered judgement in the matter of Chisak v…
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We Are Going Nowhere
We Are NOT Leaving! There is a For Sale sign strategically located outside our office in Tea Gardens. Our landlady, Fay, has decided that it is time for her to…
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NSW Court of Appeal comments on contributory negligence and intentional torts
On 3 June 2022, the New South Wales Court of Appeal delivered a judgement which considered whether contributory negligence is available as a defence to an intentional tort: Irlam v…
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Can a restraint on behaviour overcome risk?
Often times in family law matters restraints on parents behaviour are included in Orders; but is there some behaviour - or some parents - when a restraint cannot overcome a…
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How Someone Else Can Increase Your Mortgage
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be” is wisdom that is as relevant today as when Shakespeare originally wrote it. When it comes to property, the idea is to own…
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Beware the “bank of mum and dad”
These are increasingly challenging times for families. Rising interest rates and inflation, along with wage stagnation and recent property prices, have collectively put greater pressure on parents to help their…
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Why have an Enduring Power of Attorney?
Clients often resist when advised to have an Enduring Power of Attorney put in place. I am often met with the response “I will arrange a Power of Attorney when…
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Pets & Strata Title - the Final Determination
Over the past years, we have reported on the ongoing legal battle over whether strata schemes can pass by-laws that prevent owners and occupiers from having pets within strata schemes.…
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What is Arbitration?
More and more parties are choosing to use Arbitration to resolve their property division matters - instead of the Family Law Courts. But what is it and how does it…
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Lost your Will?
Misplaced your Will? Your Will was recently damaged in a flood? Was it destroyed in a fire? If any of the above circumstances resonate with you, you need to think…
