Recent posts have considered various aspects of the rules in relation to assets owned as joint tenants. Another aspect of the rules in this...

With the aging population, conflicts of interest arising particularly in relation to the use of an enduring power of attorney ( EPA ) a...

Image credit:  Stefano Corso In a recent post, the impact of separation following a relationship breakdown on estate planning arrangemen...

Further to last week’s post, the list below sets out some of the specific circumstances that are taken into account by the courts to determi...

Following on from last week’s post, I thought it would be useful to also summarise the definition of 'de facto'. This particular de...

The issue that what kind of relationship satisfies the definition of a 'spouse' has been coming up increasingly regularly. The Tax ...

Last week we were walking through an asset protection exercise with a business owner and one of the recommendations was that the family home...

On three separate occasions last week, the issue of 'jointly' owned assets arose. A concise summary of the difference between owning...