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This can be a very exciting time and you can easily get caught up in the celebrations of settlement without a second thought to the co-ownership arrangements. However what happens when the excitement fades away, tensions rise and the friendship becomes strained due to disagreements about the property? What to think about first Hopefully the parties have put in place an appropriate agreement setting out the terms of their co-ownership of the property. It is...

A staff member may need to be let go because the business can no longer afford them, or perhaps they are just not performing to the required level. Whatever the reason for letting an employee go, employers should be careful not to open themselves up to a claim against them in the Fair Work Commission. Where to Start? There are many things that an employer should have regard to when considering what needs to be...

The father argued that exceptional circumstances had arisen since the agreement was made because the child now lived full time with him and if he was obliged to pay child support to the mother (with whom the child spends little time) as well as meeting living and education expenses for the child and the child’s older sibling, he would suffer hardship. In the unfortunate (and arguably unintended) result, as the agreement had been terminated, it...

Committees often have to deal with complex repair projects or legal disputes in the evenings or weekends when they are not working at their paid jobs. Owners Corporation managers are busy people too. They often manage many properties, and dealing with an important issue for one Owners Corporation client can mean less attention in the mean time for others. So, when an Owners Corporation needs legal advice about how to deal with an important issue,...