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Buying Property with Someone Else – Considerations for Property Co-owners
Buying a property with someone else is a great way to share the fun, stress, and cost of the venture. Often people buy a house with their significant other, to make a home or invest together. Others buy property with friends, relatives or business partners. Joining...
Caveats
How many of you know what is a caveat and what does it do. The good definition of a caveat is that it is an instrument when lodged at the titles office that can prohibit any person dealing with the land in question. Most times a caveat is used to protect a purchaser...
Family Law Property Settlements
In the Family Law field where the parties have separated and want to settle their property interests there is a lot of Law on the subject but the primary get go is to gather all the information of the assets and liabilities of the parties to ensure there has been a...
Drinking and Driving Anothers Car
DON’T LEND YOUR CAR because if you do and your friend gets caught drink driving at 0.10 you loose your car for 30 days and you have to pay the fine $600.00 to get it back The Herald Sun today 15th June 2015 writes: THOUSANDS of Victorians found boozed-up behind the...
Employment contracts – restraint of trade?
Many employment contracts have restrictions on employees when they leave their employer and start working for a new employer in the same business. The law in Victoria is different from other states in that; what one would consider a valid agreement is read down to be...
Drink and Drug driving there more…
The Andrews Labor Government is cracking down on some of Victoria’s most dangerous drivers who mix alcohol above the legal limit with illicit drugs and then get behind the wheel. Natalie Hutchins, Acting Minister for Roads and Road Safety, announced two new offences...
Lease Law
Do you rent a commercial property as the Landlord or the Tenant you need to know the latest. VCAT has just issued a directive to advise that if a Landlord is required to make good issues with respect to their property because essential safety measures require fixing....
Estate Planning
Where there’s a will there’s a way. I am often asked by people about the importance of doing their will and I always respond with the advice that even if you do not think that you own anything you must have will. My will is important. Administration and Probate Act...
No such thing as a simple will
A recent decision of the Full Court of the Supreme Court of Tasmania in Calvert v Badenach [2015] TASFC 8 is a good reminder for lawyers preparing wills that there is no such thing as a simple will. The case concerned a professional negligence claim against a...
Cooling Off – Sale of real estate
Selling and Buying land is always a complex business made even more difficult when the Supreme Court sends a curve ball. So sending a notice to the agent is not giving a notice and it must be given to the vendor. Read on… Russell Cox, Victoria’s leading writer on...