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Rabia Siddique - international humanitarian lawyer, retired British Army officer, former war crimes and terrorism prosecutor and hostage survivor - has lived an extraordinary life. Already this year she is newly married and her blended family now has ... More

Dear Paul, I would like to buy a small unit or house in the near future. I had a workplace accident five years ago and am waiting to receive an impairment compensation payout because, unfortunately, I cannot work again. Payments cease this week and ... More

Getting married involves organising a thousand things and the chances are that in among all the obvious things, you've given no thought to the impact getting married will have on your taxes. With Valentine's Day just around the corner, here are the ... More

Dear Paul, I have been "pink recessioned". I was earning $60,000 a year and then overnight I lost my casual job. I was fortunate to have enough in savings to clear all my debts, but in my panic to do that I didn't really think about what was going ... More

Before my career as a behavioural economist, I worked in the arts. We were in the last two weeks of rehearsals for a major theatre production of Romeo and Juliet and a heated argument broke out between three key people about how the director wanted ... More

The demand for prenuptial agreements (prenups) has risen over the past decade for multiple reasons. Protecting an inheritance is important and with more couples marrying later in life, they're often acquiring more assets independently. Then there are ... More

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