Cordato Partners | Australia | 11 Mar 2024
Family farms are often family partnerships. When the parents retire, often an 'on-farm' child wants to keep farming. If so, the transfer of the farm…
Cordato Partners | Australia | 4 Mar 2024
The Supreme Court of NSW has decided if an interest rate of 70.72% per annum made a short-term loan secured by residential mortgage unjust. This is…
Cordato Partners | Australia | 19 Feb 2024
If mulch contains asbestos, it's necessary to go back along the supply chain, to the source, which might be asbestos waste from a demolition or…
Cordato Partners | Australia | 13 Feb 2024
An option fee is paid for the grant of a real estate option. Normally, the option fee is credited towards the deposit under the Contract for Sale…
Cordato Partners | Australia | 26 Jan 2024
Mascot Towers is a strata disaster. Locked out of their homes and business premises for almost 5 years, the Strata Law has failed the owners of Mascot…
Cordato Partners | Australia | 23 Jan 2024
The ACCC has rules for businesses to follow when offering free gifts because the word 'free' is so attractive to consumers that they are easily…
Cordato Partners | Australia | 5 Jan 2024
Until now, all owners of the family home were exempt from land tax so long as one was an owner occupier. The NSW State Budget 2023/24 has restricted…
Cordato Partners | Australia, New Zealand | 11 Dec 2023
This article is an analysis of Karpik v Carnival plc (The Ruby Princess) (Initial Trial) [2023] FCA 1280, a decision of the Federal Court of…
Cordato Partners | Australia | 13 Nov 2023
It is conveyancing practice that a company director signs a personal guarantee when they purchase a property in the company name. What is their…