51: Protecting the elderly from kids | November 15, 2012

DEMENTIA sufferers will be given stronger legal protection from their children pursuing their estates after a High Court ruling in their favour yesterday…




52: National laws needed for Living Wills | October 18, 2012

Some leading doctors and ethicists are calling for uniform national laws to guarantee a dying person’s wishes, as expressed in a living will, are respected by doctors and hospitals. They say new medical technology is sometimes prolonging life unnecessarily…




53: Where there’s a Will, there’s a chance for wasteful litigation | April 13, 2012

Wills, succession and family provisions provide the landscape for some of the spellbinding human dramas that unfold in the equity courts…




54: The price of financial infidelity | March 25, 2012

A THIRD of Americans have cheated on their partner … about money. It’s called financial infidelity and we suspect a similar, or greater, proportion of Australians have done the same thing…




55: Spouses to get estates when partners leave will | March 1, 2010

SPOUSES will automatically inherit the estates of their partners when they do not leave a will, under new laws that come into force in NSW today…