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When buying or selling property, you might hear the term finance clause thrown around.

Succession planning in farming and other family business is a massive issue. A well planned and implemented succession plan can be the icing on the cake of your successful business or farming life. It can also be the foundation for your children or other relatives to carve out their own success.

As estate planning lawyers we regularly speak to people about writing a will, power of attorney and appointing an enduring guardian. While most people have a good understanding of why it is important to write a will, power of attorney and enduring guardians are less well known.

We get asked a lot of questions about what happens when someone dies. Recently, we were asked about funerals and what the law has to say about them. There’s actually a lot of law about funerals. These are the big ticket items you should know:

One of the biggest complaints people have about lawyers is about the price. Fees are either too high, or it’s unclear what something is going to cost until the job is done – a nasty surprise at the end of a matter. If you’ve ever said this, we’ve heard you. We’ve set out to change the way law is practised, and pricing is a huge part of that. We operate on the following pricing principles:

COVID-19 has caused us all to stop and think about a lot of things. One of those things is mortality.

The COVID-19 pandemic certainly has the world facing unprecedented challenges and uncertainty. In Australia and around the world, the situation is changing daily. The pandemic has already had a devastating effect on many businesses – cafés, restaurants and pubs all closed; entertainment venues closed; sporting fixtures closed; worksites closed, to name a few. Nobody can say for certain what will come next. But is clear that the pandemic related restrictions have had, and will continue to have, significant impact on business to business and business to consumer arrangements. In many cases, the arrangements will become impractical or impossible.A contract which is incapable of being completed through no fault of either party becomes ‘frustrated’. The notion of frustration is not a new concept in contract law, and in circumstances where the parties recognise the possibility of a contract becoming frustrated exists, often a ‘force majeure’ clause is agreed to

Death is part of life, but talking about it is often hard. Estate planning before you die and estate administration after a family member dies is also a part of life that is hard to know how to talk about.

Properly identifying the property

Your business name can be one of your most valuable assets. But there are also some complexities and traps involved in what you call your business. You can’t just trade under any name and there are steps you can take to protect your chosen name.

Problems with the property at settlement – claims by the purchaser

A while back we posted an article about the differences between a lawyer and a solicitor. Today we are talking about the differences between a solicitor and a conveyancer in a property transaction.

Sometimes it’s really easy to mess up the simplest things. Recently we made a mistake and infringed someone’s copyright. Fortunately that mistake didn’t bite us on the backside too badly. In fact, it put us onto some lawyers who know what they’re about and who we hope to make friends with.

Ever wondered what the difference is between a lawyer and a solicitor? Of course you have. (Naaa, probably not… but just in case you’re interested, here it is).

The GDPR