BM Law Solicitors Brisbane Family Law & Business Law

As expected I have just received advice from the Law Council that legislation has been introduced today into Parliament to correct the oversight where the law about defactos was not proclaimed. I understand that it has bipartisan support so one would expect that it will be passed fairly quickly. Let’s hope they remember to proclaim [...]

I thought it would be good to let people know about our new computer system as there are some great benefits to our clients which I’d like to explain. Our firm spent a significant amount of money on changing completely our computer system as we recognised that we needed to update it. After extensive research [...]

A case recently caught my eye where the parties lived together for a period of 4 1/2 years and married during that time. The husband was fairly elderly and his wife was 30 years his junior. The husband was worth many millions of dollars and the wife had assets including super of approximately $1,000,000.During the [...]

I recently saw on the front page of”The Australian” newspaper that there was a heading questioning about the validity of Orders made in the Family Court for de facto couples. When I was in Sydney at the Conference this issue was raised by one of the Family Court Judges who confirmed that the government would [...]

There has been a recent District Court case in the District Court at Maroochydore where the buyer of a property brought a claim against the seller for damages for personal injury suffered by the buyer after an inspection of the property. The property was a rural property on which the seller operated a mobile saw [...]