Avoiding residential conveyancing traps – how your lawyer can help

Conveyancing is the process involving the transfer of legal title of real property from one person to another. The conveyancing process is designed to ensure that the buyer obtains good and marketable title to the property together with all the rights that...

Watch out for farms

Your good client and friend Fergus rings and asks you to act for him on a sale. Fergus is a solo accountant and a bit of a wheeler and dealer. You do a fair bit of work for him. He says that he has a farm down south that has been doing pretty well but he has...

SMSF – Non-bank LRBA – 30 June deadline

It is strongly recommended that non-bank SMSF limited recourse borrowing arrangements (“LRBAs”) be reviewed to ensure compliance with the safe harbour guidelines published by the ATO last week (see PCG 2016/5). Income generated from a non-bank...

Marriage and divorce – don’t forget your will

It is not something necessarily at the top of our list when you are excitedly planning a wedding or sadly contemplating divorce, but it is very important that when you start or end a significant relationship that you review and, if necessary, update your...

Transferring Dutiable Land – Order of Operations

You act for Robert who is the executor of his late wife Maggie’s estate, along with Maggie’s three children. Robert brings in the original will which was prepared by another solicitor in 1998.You are surprised when reviewing the will that Robert was not left...

Avoiding residential conveyancing traps – how your lawyer can help

Watch out for farms

SMSF – Non-bank LRBA – 30 June deadline

Marriage and divorce – don’t forget your will

Transferring Dutiable Land – Order of Operations

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