A natural disaster can have devastating effects on business operations. Whether you are a landlord or a tenant under a commercial lease, it is important to obtain legal advice both before you enter into the lease and in the aftermath of a natural disaster. This article considers some of the issues to discuss with your lawyer.
Are you looking for a home and thinking about paying for a house on land owned by a friend or family? This article provides a brief summary of the important legal issues you need to consider if you are planning such an arrangement.
A number of circumstance may give rise to you wanting to transfer a contract. For instance, you may have sold your business and you want to transfer your customer contracts or purchase contracts to the purchaser of the business.
When a person appoints an attorney under an enduring power of attorney (“EPA”), the person appointing the attorney must be advised by a lawyer or registered legal executive on the terms and implications of the power of attorney document.There is no requirement for the attorney to receive such advice before he or she signs the power of attorney document.However, it is important that an attorney knows and understands what he or she is taking on when agreeing to be appointed an attorney under an EPA.
A will is one of the most important documents you’ll sign during your lifetime. It’s important that you have one. It’s important also that you have the mental capacity to make one.
When you make or revoke a legal document, for example a will or enduring power of attorney, you have to be mentally capable at the time of signing, otherwise the document will not be valid.
Parties to a dispute always focus on what needs to be decided. The parties should also focus on how the decision should be made. This article reviews the way in which the parties should go about considering whether Expert Determination is an appropriate form of dispute resolution for them.
Is a solicitor's approval condition an easy way to cancel an agreement for the sale and purchase of real estate, if the purchaser changes his or her mind?
A commonly held view is that litigation through the Courts is a lengthy and costly exercise, which can certainly be the case. This article reviews the mediation process, and its ability to resolve disputes either in conjunction with or as an alternative to Court litigation.
Sometimes elderly people who are living happily in their own homes find themselves in a situation where they need a cash injection from an outside source to be able to finance things such as maintenance on the home, replace a motor vehicle, or pay for elective surgery, for example, because they do not have cash available in savings, and they cannot get a loan advance from a regular bank, because they do not have income flow to service the loan repayments.