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Leading commercial and insolvency lawyer Mark Streeter says many companies are uncertain about whether their credit is secured since the introduction of the Personal Properties Security Register on 30 January 2012. He says many companies have failed to...

Owners of strata apartments or other strata property need to be aware that strata schemes and owners’ corporations are not automatically responsible for rectifying defects to common property. It is important for property owners and investors to...

    Interestingly, the length of a de facto relationship is not the only criteria for determining its legitimacy in the eyes of the law. Did you know that you can be in a de facto relationship provided that you meet the criteria in the Family...

    New research by Paul Amato, a professor of sociology at Pennsylvania State University, suggests that a “good divorce” is no better than an unhappy marriage!  When a range of wellbeing measures were examined the children of parents with...

    In short, the answer is "yes". But a recent decision of the Family Court has raised issues regarding how ageing couples may be affected by property settlements should they be physically separated due to declining health. Mr Stanford...

We are often asked the question what percentage will I get of the matrimonial property after separation?  A decision of the Family Court enabled a wife to receive 100 per cent of the matrimonial asset pool because she chose to follow four crucial steps...

    Who decides what is right for a child? The parents or the Government? Both! By Australian law parents jointly share the responsibilities concerning the care, welfare and development of their children. Parental responsibility is clearly...

A Power of Attorney is a legal document enabling someone to act on another person’s behalf. It can be very useful but it is essential that the person who grants this ‘power’ have the ‘capacity’ to do so. In July 2010, a case in the Supreme...

Many grandparents who have been actively involved in the lives of their grandchildren are affected when their children divorce or separate. A restriction on the time spent with their grandchildren, or a refusal to allow access to their grandchildren due...

Some corporate fraud by employees is not premeditated. it is opportunistic. Sometimes temptation overrides common sense. It is important that businesses have in place mechanisms to prevent fraud. In this video it explains a simple scenario. A laid off...