Law

If you do not register your name or product. Can you stop a competitor from using it?

There are only 300 words that you need to know about Patents. Here they are.

With declining cost and ease of registration it a lot easier to register your product and business name. Is there any downside?

If you produce quality writing, artwork, training materials or other creative works then listen and learn how to protect your works.


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What if you buy a business and the seller returns a year later and sets up next door?

How to avoid losing your inheritance due to your parents sidestepping the formal will process.

Make your funeral stand out with a Will Reading. 
 

 I have always been very proud of my son but now he tells me that he wants to put me in a home........

The relationship between a Mother in Law and her Daughter in Laws can often be tense. The relationship requires careful management.

If you have been left out of the Will it is worth considering if it was intentional.

If you could sum up your daughter-in-law in two words would they be "gin-soddened"? 

Making a Will is no longer a guarantee that you will decide who gets your money when you die. 
This can be the good news if you are someone who has been left out of a Will 

Has your dad lost his marbles? If so, unless the court intervenes, it is all over for him making a will in your favour or changing an existing will to disinherit a few of your siblings.....

For years, you look after a rich aunt who promises to leave you her house.  She dies but leaves the property to another in her Will. When can you rely on promises?

In the good times, parents encouraged their children to buy homes, investment units, enter business deals, invest in shares and generally “do it” in order to get them off their hands.

In bad times, as these financial arrangements unravel kids turn to their parents to “fix it”.

Leaving an inheritance to an alcoholic/excessively fun loving or otherwise unreliable son

Any family can become the stage for a disastrous and costly dispute driven by high emotion. The interests of each family member can be quite different.