Publications and News

Your ex-partner, Antonio, contacts you late Wednesday afternoon asking you to act for him in relation to selling a shop down the main street of the small coastal town you live in. You are thrilled to receive the call. You parted on reasonably good terms but haven’t heard from him in a long time and you were always secretly hoping you might re-kindle the flame. Eager to please Antonio, you stay back late to draft the contract so it is ready for him to sign in the morning.  Continue Reading..

It is with great pleasure that JMA Legal would like to announce we have incorporated Anoni Wright Lawyers of Junee. Our new office is located at 93 Broadway Junee NSW 2663. Continue Reading..

The recent World Elder Abuse Awareness Day gave the NSW Law Society the opportunity to put elder abuse at the top of the agenda. In the context of an aging Australian population and the World Health Organisation reporting that elder abuse is on the rise – a report by the Law Reform Commission has found that emotional and financial abuse are two of the most common forms of abuse. Financial abuse can include stealing money from the elderly, incurring bills for which an older person is responsible, abusing power of attorney arrangements or forcing someone to sign a will or contract. Continue Reading..

It is with great pleasure that JMA Legal would like to announce we have opened a new office in Tumut.  Continue Reading..

Jane and James have been clients of yours for the last ten years. You enjoy working with them because they seem quite an adventurous couple, so you are thrilled when James calls you to say he would like to meet up with you to discuss his new business idea.James tells you that he and some of his mates are going to set up a brewery in their local town and that he will become the director of the new company which is going to run the operation. James and Jane are concerned about James’ personal liability and think it’s wise for James to retire as trustee of their family trust. You are familiar with their trust; it owns several units at the coast and Jane and James, along with Jane’s father, are the trustees, and the beneficiaries are Jane, James, their children and Jane’s father.  Continue Reading..

Following on from our article last month about stamp duty being abolished on homes for first home owners up to a certain limit, the Federal Government in its recent Budget also established a scheme to help people save for their first home by using their superannuation fund to build savings for a deposit in a tax advantageous environment. Continue Reading..

Snapshot

• Options are always tricky.
• What applies to GST does not necessarily apply to CGT.
• Assumptions can be very dangerous.

Join us for an interactive seminar on Wednesday 26 July from 6pm to 8pm, designed to aid upcoming farmers and off-farm siblings with agribusiness and succession law topics.  Continue Reading..

It is first thing on Tuesday morning when you receive a call from your client Lachlan who wants you to review an auction contract for a farm that has come up for sale next to his. The auction is scheduled for that afternoon so Lachlan, as he always does, has really left things until the last minute. You had a terrible night’s sleep after a big blue with your husband about his spendthrift ways, and aren’t feeling all that sharp, but you have the time to review the contract. Lachlan also wants you to attend the auction with him.  Continue Reading..

From 1 July 2017 the NSW Government will introduce a long awaited range of new measures to assist first home buyers and housing affordability generally throughout NSW. Under current laws in NSW, first home buyers are only eligible for a stamp duty exemption on a purchase of a new home up to the value of $550,000 (and in the case of vacant land, a purchase up to the value of $350,000).  Continue Reading..