How would you feel if your estate went to a complete stranger, someone you’d never even met, instead of going to your children? It’s more likely than you might expect. Protecting your children’s inheritance is about good planning – and that can only happen through pragmatic awareness and recognition of what is legally possible…

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. ..

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. ..

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…

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…

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?..

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

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…