Marital Assets

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1: Estate Management Terminology and Family Law | August 23, 2015

The below list of related terms are by no means exhaustive, but they are a good starting point for anyone contemplating either beginning, ending or clarifying a important relationship that either involves us directly, or involves someone we care deeply about. ..

Catchwords: Binding Child Support Agreement, Binding Financial Agreement, Enduring Power of Attorney, Estate Planning, Family Gifts, Family Loans, Family Provision, Financial Advice, Inheritance, Intestacy Laws, Living Wills, Loan Agreement, Post-Nuptial Agreement, Testamentary Intention, Testamentary Trust, Wills

2: Family of Neville Wran agree to mediation over estate | August 8, 2015

Wran died in April last year (2014) aged 87 after suffering dementia. He left a fortune estimated to be worth up to $40 million, largely made up of an impressive property portfolio. This estate is at the heart of a dispute within his extended family. ..

Catchwords: Family Provision, Inheritance, Intestacy Laws, Succession Laws, Superannuation, Testamentary Intention, Wills

3: Big Sydney Divorce with Bizarre Home Sale ends in Property Transfer | July 27, 2014

In this case a successful businessman did everything in his power to prevent his estranged wife from residing in the former matrimonial home, even concocting a late night fire sale of the house to a mystery buyer…

Catchwords: Big Money Divorce, Financial Infidelity, High Profile Divorces, Matrimonial Home, Property, Property Transfer

4: De facto couples have differences to married counterparts, judge says | April 23, 2014

De facto couples – even those who have a child and live together – have significant social, financial and emotional “differences” to married couples, according to a Federal Circuit Court judge…

Catchwords: Carers' Payment, Court Decision, De Facto, De Facto Relationship, Family Law Act, Family Law Act 1975, Precedent, Relationship, Single Parents Pension

5: How to Divorce Proof a Gifted Asset to your Child | March 22, 2014

Sharing the family assets by giving adult offspring an early inheritance may seem like a good idea. But what happens if they split from their partner, and those hard-won assets walk out the door?..

Catchwords: Family Gifts, Family Law Act, Family Loans, Inter Vivos transfer, Inter Vivos transfer, Marital Assets

6: Pregnancies earn woman better deal in defacto family law split | November 19, 2013

TWO short pregnancies were among the reasons a woman should get a larger property settlement from her millionaire former defacto, a judge has found…

Catchwords: De Facto, De Facto Relationship, Marital Assets, Precedent, Property, Significant Contribution, Substantial Contribution

7: Divorce: Who gets the air miles? | June 28, 2013

REACHING a divorce settlement agreement is largely about dividing marital assets. You’ll negotiate a division of your jointly-owned real estate, stock portfolios, cash and even more unusual assets such as expensive collections of art, wine, antique guns or whatever else you have come to own together over the years…

Catchwords: Marital Assets, Property, Women's Legal Support