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Blended marriages – Second marriages and Wills – that is marrying or partnering for a second or more time comes with with its own set of legal issues including how protect your assets from your new spouse or partner in the event of another divorce or separation and how to

First Free Consultation and Advice in Family Law NORTH SYDNEY | SYDNEY CBD | LEICHHARDT Why do we offer a free first consultation? Well, first impressions are important, and we feel that before you engage a family lawyer following separation, you need to make sure that you pick a lawyer

How Our So-called “special Contributions” in a Marriage Assessed? One of the difficult tasks in dividing up the asset pool, following separation, is to assess what weight is to be given to the various contributions made on behalf of either party to a marriage to the acquisition preservation and maintenance

There is no presumption in Australian law that marital assets must be divided equally between husband and wife. Instead, the Family Court has broad powers to make Orders for a just and equitable division of assets. In deciding how the assets of a husband and wife should be distributed, the

Separation or divorce should not end a parent’s involvement and responsibility towards their children, but should be viewed as a start of a new commitment to the well-being children. An unfortunate truism is that children are often the innocent victims of separation/divorce, often because of parents neglecting the needs children,

Many second marriage partners successfully contest wills. The usual scenario involves a couple who have remarried later in life after their first spouse has died. One or both may have children from their first marriage and very often no children from the second relationship. When one of the partners dies

The duties of an executor are many and include the duty to arrange for the proper burial/cremation of the testator. Although this duty is usually assumed by members of the testator’s family or friends, it remains the duty of the executor to endeavor, so far as possible, to give effect

So you have separated and you have little in the bank to make it day by day. It does not matter what the assets are, cash flow is a very different thing. Based on research at the point of separation, when two separate household budgets are required, the average family