e Using a Power of Attorney to steal money In Estate Planning, you have many ways of protecting yourself and your family. For example, Divorce Protection Trusts and Loans to Children. However, while you are still alive Enduring POAs and Medical/Lifestyle POAs are...
Do all Casual Employees now get Annual Leave? Just paying your employee as a casual is not enough. You need a complying Employment Contract. Is your casual employee: casual or permanent? Your answer affects: 1. paid leave 2. notice of termination 3. redundancy pay 4....
Many binding death benefit nominations built on non-law firm websites don’t work The Court looked at a binding death benefit nomination Re Narumon Pty Ltd [2018] QSC 185. It confirms: that many Binding Nominations are faulty (but not for the reason we all thought);...
ATO’s discretion to extend the 2-year period to sell a dead person’s home CGT relief from selling the main residence more than 2 years after death – Practical Compliance Guideline PCG 2019/5 When your parents die you have two years to sell their CGT...
All our 3-Generation Testamentary Trust Wills contain Special Disability Trusts Should all Wills contain a Special Disability Trust? Yes. All Wills should contain the power to tip money from the dead person’s estate into one or more Special Disability Trusts. Do...
Divorce Protection Trust in your Will – stop step-children taking your money at death Your daughter-in-law knows you have money and that you are old. She tolerates living with your son a little longer. You die. She immediately leaves your son. She asks the...
Protecting vulnerable children in Wills Training Course Building 3-Generation Testamentary Trust Wills online with Adjunct Professor, Dr Brett Davies FREE Start for free Checklist Protecting a vulnerable child When you build your Wills on our website you are asked for...
A ‘lost’ Will is not automatically a ‘revoked’ Will – lost vs revoked A Will is valid until it is intentionally revoked by the Will-maker. The Will-maker must be of sound mind to revoke a Will. A person holding a POA for the Will-makers...