What's in an Estate Plan?

Estate planning is an often neglected but important part of your financial plan. An estate plan is about more than what happens with your assets after you die. It is also concerned with the way you structure your assets while you are still alive. Check to ensure you have taken care of the followi...

BASIC COMPANY LAW FOR NON-LAWYERS

We all deal with companies every day but do we really know much about them? Their nature, their powers and the different types of companies that exist? Here are 3 basic characteristics of the most popular business structure known as the ‘company’   Separ...

3 LEGAL STRUCTURES USED BY THE RICH TO PROTECT AND GROW WEALTH

For those of you who only earn ordinary income as an employee, this advice is not going to help you in your current circumstances. Not that there is anything wrong with being an employee, it's just the tax system gives you almost zero flexibility in structurin...

3 LEGAL STRUCTURES USED BY THE RICH TO PROTECT AND GROW WEALTH

For those of you who only earn ordinary income as an employee, this advice is not going to help you in your current circumstances. Not that there is anything wrong with being an employee, it's just the tax system gives you almost zero flexibility in structurin...

6 Key Legal Documents for Your Business

As a small business owner, you’re expected to be an expert in marketing, finance, legal, R&D and business development, not to mention your actual line of expertise. To help you out, we’ve put together a quick reference list of some common and useful legal documents you can use in running your ent...

4 Essentials for Starting Up a Business in Australia

Welcome to Australia - where you can't smoke in prison, get drunk at a bar, boo at a sporting game or ride a bicycle without a helmet. Maybe its a just natural expression of colonial and convict roots but Australia sure loves regulation! Here are 4 essentials to starting up a business in Australi...