Getting your estate documents together

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Jonathan See of Townsends Business & Corporate Lawyers recently published an article on ‘Preparing for the Inevitable: Getting your estate documents together‘.  Below is an excerpt, the suggested list of

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Choosing an investment structure to meet in-house asset rule

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An SMSF investing with a related party must be careful not to breach the in-house asset rule. Donald and Melania are members of the Trumpet Super Fund and directors of

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Low interest rates prompting LRBA refinancing

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SMSF trustees should not give into the siren call of low interest rate refinancing of their Fund’s loan until they have considered these points. In the current low-interest rate environment,

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Does a mistreated parent lead to loss of inheritance?

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Can a child treat his/her parent badly and still expect a share of the parent’s estate? The latest case highlights the answer. You don’t need to scour the bookshops for

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Six member SMSF as pooled investment structure

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There is currently legislation before Parliament to increase the maximum number of members of SMSFs from four to “not more than six”.  When passed, the measure will commence from the

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Buy your retirement home now in your SMSF and use it when you retire?

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Garry and Betty are the directors of the corporate trustee of their SMSF.  They are contemplating acquiring a property through their SMSF, which they plan to lease to an unrelated

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Asset rich, cash poor: Meeting cash obligations with all eggs in one basket

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What to do when the fund owns a property and one of the members dies.  Can the fund delay selling the property to pay the death benefit? A self-managed superannuation

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SMSFs and derivatives – a potential diversification option

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Investing in derivatives has been one of the popular investment options for savvy investors. As the ATO has been posing the question to some SMSF trustees whether their investments are

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Working through live-in aged carer issues

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With many baby-boomers dreading the prospect of going into an old-folks home, house-sharing may look like the answer. Doug is almost 80 but in quite reasonable health.  He can do

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New testamentary trust law

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New law closes loophole on Favourable Tax Treatment of Income from Testamentary Trusts. Testamentary trusts are trusts created by the testator under the will to be established upon the death

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