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LATEST ISSUE - BLB NEWSLETTER - APRIL 2010

BUSINESS LAW

WHY DO WE BOTHER WITH CONTRACTS?
Here’s a sad story with an important moral – always ensure that you have a written agreement whenever you engage in an important business transaction.


FINANCIAL SERVICES

ESTATE PLANNING MEANS ASKING THE HARD QUESTIONS
Working in estate planning means very often having to ask the hard questions – questions about their family that can make clients feel a little uncomfortable. I had to ask one of those the other day.

FIRST HOME OWNER GRANT – PROSECUTIONS FOR FALSE CLAIMS
As part of its compliance program, the NSW Office of State Revenue has recently coordinated the successful prosecution of several individuals who had provided false and misleading information to receive the First Home Owner Grant and stamp duty concessions on a property purchase.


SUPERANNUATION

SUPER SCHEMES
Recently, Mr Atan Kassongo was sentenced to two years imprisonment by the District Court of New South Wales for unlawfully allowing the early access to superannuation benefits.


ESTATE PLANNING

WHEN CAN YOU AVOID PROBATE?
A grant of probate is strictly speaking only necessary where the executor has to prove to a third party who currently controls the asset that the executor is entitled to deal with the asset.


DISPUTE MANAGEMENT

MAKING CLAIMS AGAINST FINANCIAL ADVISERS
There are many factors for clients to consider if they believe they have a claim against their financial adviser and/or AFSL holder for economic losses that may have been incurred as a result of advice received.


LIFE’S TOO SERIOUS

A CHILD'S VIEW
Joke of the month.


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