trusts

Special Disability Trusts

19 April 2010

The Special Disability Trust is an underutilised but useful vehicle for providing for family members who may have a physical or intellectual disability. It permits one to hold up to an amount of $551,740 which is excluded from the asset test, and the income from which is excluded from the income test.

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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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