Welden & Coluccio Lawyers is thrilled to announce our involvement 2016 Telstra Business Awards. As one of six finalists in the category “New Business Award”, we are humbled to be vying for this honour with other start-up businesses, each demonstrating the very best that Adelaide has to offer in terms of entrepreneurial innovation. We look […]
It is increasingly common to find that land is held in a family trust. As a strategy this holds many benefits (particularly those related to assets testing and taxation). However, if you are involved in such a situation it is critical that you understand the importance of having yourself, as a trustee, registered. When land […]
At some point in the future you will die. Death (along with taxes) remains one of the few things in life which you can predict. While this is hardly a revelation it is a truth that too many people ignore, especially when you remind them of the importance of having a Will and estate plan. […]
My wife loves nothing better than a project (probably symptomatic of her chosen profession as a high school teacher). So I wasn’t too surprised then when she came to me with grand ideas of building a holiday house. “It will be fun,” she told me, “think of it as an adventure.” When I finished rolling […]
Riley B. “B.B.” King died on 14 May 2015 at the age of 89 and was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. King introduced a unique style of solo guitar and heavily influenced many later electric blues guitarists. B.B. King was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame […]
We see them a lot; Lawyers that is, advertising their cut-price Wills on brightly painted sandwich boards plonked on the footpaths of our suburban streets. There is an old saying that goes something like, ‘if something sounds too good to be true then it probably is.’ Where Wills are concerned you really do get what […]
A question I get asked in almost every client meeting is whether there is any central registry for storing or locating Wills? The answer is no…well, sort of. Prior to the recent introduction of the Law Society of South Australia’s Will Register (a little more on that in a minute) there was no central registry […]
If you are reading this hoping to have some legal aspect of the AFL dealt with, I will apologise in advance. This blog is about sports. You see, perhaps the only thing that comes close to our passion about the law and Estate Planning, is our passion for sports. Especially Port Adelaide! 6 weeks into […]
Ok, so if my last blog about Wills (Nostradamus) was a bit of a stretch on celebrity, this one will surely break that string. To be fair, even I feel bad calling this person a celebrity will, but hey, like I say, everyone needs a Will!! A few weeks back my interest was piqued when […]
When dealing with the administration of a deceased estate it seems obvious that you need an actual deceased person! The ordinary course of events would run as follows; Make a will naming an executor; Die; Executor obtains a Grant of Probate; Executor administers deceased estate. Simple right? As a lawyer, experienced in a great variety […]