Author name: Fleur Craig

Your ‘death benefit’ includes the money in your superannuation account plus any life insurance cover you have through your super fund as at your date of death. Death benefits are not estate assets (don’t form part of your estate upon your death) and therefore usually cannot be dealt with in your Will.  It is the […]

ORGAN DONATION  Did you know that you can include a clause in your Will expressing a wish to donate your organs?  To make sure that wish can be learnt by medical staff at the time of your death it is important to also record decision to donate organs on the National Organ Donor Register (AODR).

Armour-Craig Legal is a registered lodging party on the SPEAR Electronic Lodgment Network (ELN).  SPEAR (Surveying and Planning through Electronic Applications and Referrals) is an online system that allows lodging parties to prepare applications and submit them electronically for lodgment to Land Use Victoria (Land Titles Office). Plan-based dealings lodged at Land Use Victoria (the

A vendor of a small business, being a business in which the goodwill, plant, equipment and fittings being sold have a total price of $450 000 or less, must provide a Section 52 Disclosure Statement to a purchaser before the purchaser signs the contract of sale or pays a deposit.   The requirement to provide a

Victoria’s Voluntary Assisted Dying Act commenced on 19 June 2019. The Act sets out strict eligibility criteria and procedures enabling a person in the late stages of a terminal illness to ask for and access voluntary assisted dying medication. Access is only possible if the dying person can meet the following criteria: They are in

If you die without a Will you don’t get to determine who benefits from your estate or who is in charge of administering your estate.  The administration of your estate may be take a lot longer than if you had died with a Will in place. If you die without a Will you have died

There is a common misconception that s272 of the Property Law Act acts to prevent a landowner’s right to sue for actual physical infringement or encroachment of their property boundary when the infringement or encroachment is less than 50mm (50mm where the boundary is less than 40.3m, or 1/500 of the boundary length where it

Residential Properties Stamp duty relief on residential property transactions of up to $1 million were announced by the Victorian Government announced on 23 November 2020. A wavier of 50% for new residential properties and a wavier of 25% for existing residential properties is available on contracts entered into between 25 November 2020 until 30 June