Does Your Face Belong To You? What To Do When Someone Uses Your Photo Without Permission The ubiquitous nature of the digital age allows anyone to use, adapt or duplicate content on the internet. But what do you do if that content belongs to you? Or even worse, what do you do if that content […]
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New Residential Tenancy Laws Making it Easier
New Residential Tenancy Laws Make It Easier & Cheaper for Tenants to Break a Fixed Term Rental Agreement Before the End of the Term Mandatory fees now apply to all fixed-term agreements of three years or less, when a tenant ends the agreement early. This applies to agreements that are entered into from 23 March […]
Are Prenuptial Agreements Valid?
The short answer is “A properly drafted prenuptial agreement is valid”. Prenuptial agreements or financial agreements, as they are also referred to in Australia, are generally valid and married spouses or de facto spouses are free to enter them at any point in a relationship as a means of clarifying or resolving financial issues between […]
Four Things to Do To Ensure Your Affairs are in Order
COVID-19 has brought into focus the uncertainty that inherently exists in our world. We just don’t know what is around the next corner. This has caused many of us to consider whether our affairs are in order. Here are four things to do.. Have in place a valid, up to date, well drafted and properly considered […]
Trustees of Self-Managed Super Funds are Obliged to Exercise Their Discretion in Good Faith Upon Real and Genuine Consideration
The recent Court of Appeal case of Wareham v Marsella (2020) VSCA 92 was a timely reminder of the “good faith” obligations. These are the relevant facts. Helen Swanson set up a self-managed super fund for herself in 2003. The trustees of the fund were Helen Swanson and her daughter, Carol Wareham, a child from […]
Pouring from an Empty Cup: Financial Assistance to your Adult Children
I’m sure we all remember the safety briefing on a plane – put your own oxygen mask on first before you help others. The same can be said about being led into the temptation to help adult children as we head into what has been described by the International Monetary Fund as a “deep recession”. […]
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