Death and fam­i­ly law prop­er­ty proceedings

Dec 7, 2018

If you and your for­mer part­ner are unable to agree to the terms of a prop­er­ty set­tle­ment, one of you will…
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Cross all t’s, dot all i’s: Per­son­al guar­an­tees gone wrong

Nov 27, 2018

Intro­duc­tion There are occa­sions, espe­cial­ly for small to medi­um size enter­pris­es, where the com­pa­ny’s direc­tor or direc­tors have to pro­vide…
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Appeals: a use­ful lesson

Nov 27, 2018

The deci­sion of PND Civ­il Group Pty Ltd v Bas­tow Civ­il Con­struc­tions Pty Ltd [2017] NSW­CA 159 high­lights the dif­fi­cul­ty of…
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I’m broke, baby: bank­rupt­cy and the right to lit­i­gate fam­i­ly law proceedings

Nov 19, 2018

It is not uncom­mon for you and your for­mer part­ner to find your­self in tight finan­cial cir­cum­stances fol­low­ing sep­a­ra­tion. You…
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Fam­i­ly Law Pub­li­ca­tion Restric­tions: What’s pri­vate and what can be posted?

Nov 15, 2018

Par­ties to Fam­i­ly Law pro­ceed­ings often con­fide in their loved ones for com­fort and sup­port dur­ing what is a stress­ful and…
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Chil­dren’s wish­es in Fam­i­ly Law mat­ters: will your child’s wish­es be con­sid­ered by the Court?

Nov 13, 2018

If you are expe­ri­enc­ing a fam­i­ly break­down, it is like­ly that you are fac­ing one of the most chal­leng­ing and stress­ful…
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Use it or lose it; a recent case on the law of adverse possession

Nov 12, 2018

In New South Wales law it is pos­si­ble for you to become the own­er of land by ​‘adverse pos­ses­sion’. Adverse…
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Til Debt Do Us Part: The effec­tive use and pit­falls of statu­to­ry demands

Nov 12, 2018

Intro­duc­tion A cred­i­tor who is claim­ing a debt from a com­pa­ny will often want to employ the quick­est and cheap­est method of…
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The ABC of CGT in your fam­i­ly law prop­er­ty settlement

Nov 7, 2018

Tax costs have an effect on the prop­er­ty pool avail­able for dis­tri­b­u­tion. In prop­er­ty cas­es, the Court may take into…
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Reheat­ed Retweets: The Sig­nif­i­cance of a ​‘Retweet’ in Employment

Oct 29, 2018

The CFM­MEU Case In a recent case of the Fair Work Com­mis­sion (FWC) (Con­struc­tion, Forestry, Mar­itime, Min­ing and Ener­gy Union-Con­struc­tion and Gen­er­al…
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