Thinking of hiding assets during a divorce or separation?

Dividing assets after a divorce or separation is a difficult process. But a recent case highlighted the courts power to undo transactions where the assets were disposed of when a divorce or separation was only being “anticipated”.

A common misconception is that if assets are transferred prior to separation occurring (or even post separation), then assets are gone forever. This is usually done by the asset holder in an attempt to hide assets or try to defeat the claim of the other spouse or partner.

The Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia have powers that can overturn or

What three luxury homes reveal about who owns UK property

Stylised graphic showing Beechwood House, Lubov Chernukhin and Alisher Usmanov

Stylised graphic showing Beechwood House, Lubov Chernukhin and Alisher Usmanov

Owners of around 50,000 UK properties held by foreign companies remain hidden from public view, despite new transparency laws.

The Register of Overseas Entities, launched in August 2022, was meant to reveal who ultimately owns UK property.

But analysis by BBC News and Transparency International found that almost half of the firms required to declare who was behind them failed to do so.

Labor MP Margaret Hodge said the legislation was not “fit for purpose”.

A UK government spokesperson said the register has been an “invaluable source of information for

Higgs compromises on language-law update, will keep periodic review

The Higgs government is compromising on its update to the province’s Official Languages ​​Act in the hopes of winning unanimous support for the legislation.

Premier Blaine Higgs is backing away from the elimination of a mandatory 10-year review of the act contained in the statute.

He told the legislature the government will introduce its own amendments on “establishing a time frame, or periodic review” of the law.

“We believe the amendments will be in the spirit of continuous improvement of the act,” he said.

The original Official Languages ​​Act was adopted unanimously in 1969 and the new version of the

The Ontario law federation raises alarm over dwindling number of lawyers in remote areas

The Federation of Ontario Law Associations (FOLA) is raising concerns over access to justice as the number of practicing law professionals in rural and remote areas of the province of dwindles.

FOLA, which represents 46 district and county associations in Ontario, put forward a motion last week that calls on the Law Society of Ontario to develop a strategy for attracting and retaining law professionals in underserved communities.

“We hear from communities all across Ontario about the lack of lawyers who are moving to fill gaps in service in smaller communities, and these are predominantly northern communities and rural communities,”

NCAA rules legalized gambling with tough penalties

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More than 40 athletes from Iowa and Iowa State could face discipline from both law enforcement and the NCAA for impermissible online betting.

The NCAA consequences could be far worse than the legal ones.

While the penalty for betting on sporting events in the state of Iowa for individuals under the age of 21 is a fine of US$645, a college athlete could be sidelined for most of a season because of NCAA rules.

Five years since a Supreme Court decision paved the way for states to legalize betting on sporting events, more than half have

‘Keira’s Law’ set to educate judges on domestic violence, coercive control

Keira’s Law has officially been passed by the Senate.

Bill C-233, more commonly known as ‘Keira’s Law,’ is meant to expand the training of judges to accept on cases surrounding domestic violence, coercive control and the ability to consider risk factors when issuing decisions.

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Canada’s Senate passes Keira’s Law aimed at educating decision-makers on domestic violence

The bill was named after Keira Kagan, a four-year-old girl who was found dead with her father at the bottom of a cliff outside of Toronto in 2022, believed to be the case of a murder-suicide.

Jennifer Kagan-Viater, Keira’s mother, describes her

Resignation of an executor.

At times an executor was appointed by a testator in their will and the executor was ill equipped or unwilling to act as executor. In these circumstances, it is necessary for an executor to formally renounce their role as executor.

Quite often executors are confused if they can resign as an executor of a Will or how to go about it.

Renouncing an execution is a formal legal process and involves lodging documents with the Supreme Court of Victoria (or relevant court in other states) after the death of the testator. The documents should be drafted by a lawyer and

Do ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws apply?

Correction: Andrew Lester is 84 years old. An earlier version of this article contained incorrect information.

An 84-year-old white man was charged with armed assault Monday days after shooting a Black teenager whose family members said went to the wrong house.

Two days after 16-year-old Ralph Yarl was shot in Kansas City, Missouri, Kaylin Gillis, 20, was shot and killed by a homeowner in upstate New York while in a car that mistakenly turned into the wrong driveway.

The shootings by homeowners probably will renew debates about the nation’s patchwork of “stand your ground” laws, which govern the use of