Support for the valued clients of Kruger Law
We wanted to personally reach out to our clients as the Coronavirus (COVID-19) event unfolds. Kruger Law wishes to offer as much support and guidance as we reasonably can to our clients at this time. We are very conscious that a number of our clients who, by reason of...
Euthanasia – We can live without it…
Without making light of an extremely complex moral and ethical issue, the present position of the Queensland Parliament is that Queenslanders can live without euthanasia. The Queensland Government is yet to adopt any formal position on the issue - although the Premier...
“Who gets the fishing gear?”
In a recent Supreme Court of Queensland case, the Judge was asked to interpret the meaning of a clause in a Will that gave “all of the fishing gear” and a 37ft fishing trawler to the deceased’s son. The question for the judge was, “does the fishing gear include the...
Will the First Job for your Executor be a Game of “Hide and Seek”?
So you have made a Will but where exactly is it? In the top drawer? In the filing cabinet where all the “important documents” are kept? In a box in the shed since the last time you moved house? At the rubbish dump when it was accidentally disposed of in the clean up...
It’s enough to give you the (estate planning) blues…
Not only did one Mr James Tedesco sink the hearts of all Queenslanders with a last-minute try to clinch this year’s State of Origin Series, now those pesky southerners are trying to disrupt the estate plans of us Queenslanders!! The laws in New South Wales relating to...
And you thought a game of cricket decides who gets The Ashes!
Summer in Australia is typically associated with sun, surf and cricket. The original Ashes urn, believed to contain the ashes of a burnt cricket bail, is presently in Melbourne, for only the third time in 137 years. For over a century, Australia and England have...
So, you’ve got a self-managed super fund…
People often hold great wealth within their self-managed superannuation funds and they are often amended and updated as circumstances and laws change. Keeping track of any changes is crucial so it’s important you know the answers to these questions: Where is the...
Where there’s a Will… (Part 3)
This is the third article in our series detailing steps you can take to reduce (or perhaps entirely prevent) a challenge being made to your estate. As we have previously discussed, any estate plan involves understanding the important distinction between “estate” and...
Where there’s a Will… (Part 2)
This is the second article in our series detailing steps you can take to reduce (or perhaps entirely prevent) a challenge being made to your estate. One crucial step, to take as part of your estate plan, is to properly deal with your superannuation. There is an...
Where There’s a Will…
This week’s article is the first in a series detailing strategies a Will-maker can adopt to reduce the likelihood of (or perhaps entirely prevent) a challenge being made to their estate. Sadly, there are often disputes over the distribution of a person’s estate. This...