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My business partner and I have just arranged life insurance on each other so that if one of us dies then the other one can buy them out of the business. Do we need a formal agreement to record this? |
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When the new tax changes come in, so that the top personal tax rate is the same as for trusts, is it still worth me having a trust? |
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I am trading in my boat (and paying the balance) on a new boat purchase and I am a little worried about what might happen if the dealer went broke before delivering the new boat to me... |
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I am starting up a new business and trying to come up with a name.
Is there anything that I need to consider when choosing the name? |
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I lent a friend $10k in 2007, which was supposed to be given back to me when the settlement was made on their house. Supposedly, a couple of weeks. Because of this I never got anything in writing. After it not being paid back in a month I... |
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I was recently made redundant due to a restructure under rather contentious circumstances. My situation is a bit unusual, (I had a prolonged illness that may have been caused by toxins in my workplace), and I would like to share my story... |
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We attended an auction recently and when the bidding stopped the property was “passed in” as it had not met the reserve. At the time we were the highest bidder and...
... Then to our horror the... |
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I own a commercial building and my tenant has stopped paying the rent.
How do I get the tenant out of the premises? |
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If a Trust owns another Trust and wants to settle money to the new Trust, does it do so at the $27k per year rate i.e. is it treated as a gift, or ... |
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Rights of way part 2 – This is a continuation of last month’s question regarding rights of way. Does the state of the gate (with the sign ‘Private Property, NO Vehicle Access, Trespassers Prosecuted” amount to a substantial interference of the Right of Way? |
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I have an Easement (Right of way) which runs through three neighbouring properties to access mine. One of the neighbours has put a gate up which is annoying because in the rain I have to get out to open and close it... |
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I signed up to purchase some land off the plans for a subdivision a couple of years ago. The agreement provided that I had to approve the subdivision plan but I don’t remember ever having given this approval... |
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Last year I finished settling with my ex, I now have a house in trust and my business in my own name. I am now in a new relationship and looking at getting married later this year. Will the trust protect me? |
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A client of ours claims she does not have to pay her bill because she is in a temporary form of bankruptcy M.E.D. (Ministry of Economic Development) supplied paperwork to verify we had to wipe her debt, but as she owed less than 40K she doesn’t get made bankrupt! True? |
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Recently I have had problems with a couple of the companies I supply art to being wound up. It is bad enough that I am having problems recovering the money those companies owe me, but now I have got a letter from a receiver saying... How can this be correct? |
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I have been looking at apartments in the city is there any advice you can give me about this? |
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This summer I’m going on holidays in New Zealand and while I am away I will be looking at coastal property. What advice can you give me? |
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I have been looking for a house to buy but most of the ones I am interested in are for sale at auction. Is there anything that I need to be concerned about when buying a house at auction? |
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