Family Law

How Much Does a Family Lawyer Charge in Australia?

20 December 2010

How much does family lawyer charge for negotiating how to divide the property of the marriage and attending to all the necessary formalities?

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Sanity, Wills, and Marriage

11 June 2010

A will-maker is presumed to be sane, and to have sufficient mental capacity to make a will, unless the contrary is proved. A lack of mental capacity may derive from a congenital intellectual difficulty, trauma affecting the brain, or cognitive processes and disease, including those more commonly occurring with old age.

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Divorce and Estate Planning

15 March 2010

The effects of family breakdown extend beyond the personal to the economic, including intergenerational wealth transfers such as those created by wills.

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Divorce & Child Maintenance Trusts

11 September 2009

It may be good and well to cope with a disappointment, but it is better to take advantage of it. Death and taxes, so the saying goes, are two of life’s certainties. And for an indeterminate 40% of the married population, so too is divorce.

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Asset Protection and the Family Court

14 August 2009

The Family Court possesses extensive powers to deal with the property and financial resources of parties to a marriage. The recent case of Kennon v Spry, decided by the High Court earlier this year, shows just how extensive.

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