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Births, deaths and marriages are the typical occasions when people think about making a will but they shouldn't be the only times. Legacy Law director Donal Griffin says while buying property is also a common trigger, people should create a will whenever ... More

My father had a double life. He ran a second family that he kept secret from my mother and his kids for many years. When he finally told my mother the marriage was over, he had obscured his true finances, so it was impossible for her to find out where ... More

Financial abuse can be a standalone form of abuse, but it's also prevalent in about 90% of domestic violence situations. The truth is that not only is financial abuse common, it can be hard to spot because it occurs in many different forms. Self-isolation ... More

The number of people preparing a will has jumped dramatically as the coronavirus pandemic shocks Aussies out of their ambivalence about estate planning. "300% more Australians wrote wills in March than in the previous months," says Adam Lubofsky, CEO ... More

Couples across Australia are having to postpone, cancel or vastly downsize their weddings after strict new social distancing rules were announced on March 24, and the couples themselves aren't the only ones missing out. Dressmakers, venue staff ... More

With everyone is focused on health for themselves and their loved ones, it's time to talk about what we would like to happen when we can no longer make decisions. This week - from March 23-27 - is Advance Care Planning week, when you are encouraged ... More

My recently married daughter, aged 28, is in a quandary with respect to equally contributing to first home buying savings (with the aim to buy in the next 12 months). Both her and her husband (aged 30) have secure, well-paying jobs and are trying to ... More

Most of us can agree that a healthy relationship is co-operative and transparent. Yet when it comes to joint finances, many relationships are anything but. In fact, research by the Financial Planning Association (FPA) has found that more than 46% of ... More

If all you know about super is that a chunk of your salary disappears each month leaving nothing but a line on a payslip, it's time for a crash course. Here are the superannuation terms you don't really understand and have been too embarrassed ... More

Gender norms have been baked into society over hundreds of years, making them hard to shift. But in the words of Bob Dylan, the times they are a-changin'. "What we are seeing is some emerging rebalancing between the genders with regards to work ... More