Conveyancing Update: Additional Foreign Acquirer Duty

From 1 October 2016 there will be a new tax on foreign investment in residential land in Queensland called additional foreign acquirer duty. This update is a summary of key points. Additional foreign acquirer duty is an additional amount of transfer (stamp) duty which...

Conveyancing Update: Withholding Tax

New obligations are now in place that affect sellers and buyers of properties with a purchase price of $2 million or more. For contracts that were entered into on or after 1 July 2016, buyers of properties with a purchase price of $2 million or more are required to...

Enforcing Spousal Maintenance Orders

Ryan Murdoch O’Regan Lawyers had the opportunity to assist a client with the enforcement of her spousal maintenance obligations against her non-compliant former husband.  It became apparent that many clients are often unaware that the Child Support Agency...

The Granny Flat Revolution

The Australian Federal Government has been telling us for a long while now that we should save for our retirement. Various inter-generational reports and future economic forecasting by government suggest that in the near future extraordinary amounts of money will need...