A common business set up is to have a husband and wife as the shareholders and directors of a company, either trading in its own right, or as the trustee of a trust. Another is that a husband and wife are only the shareholders and directors of a company. There is a power vacuum if […]
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On Tuesday I attended a 4¼ hour seminar on legal issues concerning the Family Provision Act, which was rather timely, given that we have 4 such Supreme Court actions on at the moment which involve application under the Act. One is coming up for mediation next month. It involves a claim by a young granddaughter
Recently we assisted a pair of clients acting as Attorneys for an Enduring Power of Attorney (EPA) in dealing with Land owned by their parent. The two were required to lodge an original signed copy of the EPA with the Registrar of Titles at Landgate. Since the EPA would be lodged more than 3 months
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In relation to another matter we are handling, we tried unsuccessfully to contact a lawyer who had prepared a Will for a now-deceased client. That lawyer is himself now under care and unable to assist. We are now having to chase medical records going back to 2004 from the medical practice the client attended, and
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