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Trust eSpeaking - Autumn 2022

  • Gift or loan? The importance of properly documenting advances between family members
  • Caring for Kiwis who cannot make decisions for themselves: Comparing with Britney Spears' conservatorship
  • Where there is a will, what is the way? A parent dies, but the child is unaware of the death

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Rural eSpeaking - Summer 2021

  • Water Services Act 2021
  • 'Nuisance' is still relevant in court
  • Over the fence

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Fineprint - Summer 2021

  • Defining a de facto relationship
  • Lockdown rent relief – are there remedies?
  • Working from home
  • Digital Boost - a tool for small business
  • Waikato DHB cyber attack
  • Postscript

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Property Speaking - Summer 2021

  • Disputes in contracts
  • Caveats
  • Property briefs

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Trust eSpeaking - Spring 2021

  • Buying your first home using KiwiSaver funds
  • Estate laws due for a shake-up
  • Britney Spears’ conservatorship

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Rural eSpeaking - Winter 2021

  • Significant Natural Areas
  • Buying or leasing Māori land
  • Over the fence

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Fineprint - Winter 2021

  • Buying off the plans
  • New edition of To Trust or Not to Trust
  • Climate Action Toolbox
  • Post-Covid working world
  • An independent trustee
  • Postscript

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Property Speaking - Winter 2021

  • Recent property tax changes
  • Clarity around fixtures and fittings
  • Property briefs

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Rural eSpeaking - Autumn 2021

  • Rural leases
  • Trusts
  • Over the fence

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Fineprint - Autumn 2021

  • Social media – intellectual property owner’s friend or foe?
  • Cyber security 101 for business
  • A child’s right to a relationship with both their parents
  • LIM reports and property files
  • Postscript

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Rural eSpeaking - Summer 2020

  • Investment in farming
  • The finite supply of water
  • Over the fence

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Fine print - Summer 2020

  • Directorships mean significant obligations
  • Holiday Houses
  • We’re buying a house together
  • Building a fence in town
  • Postscript

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Property Speaking - Summer 2020

  • Changes to the building act 2004
  • Understanding your property title
  • Property briefs

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Trust eSpeaking - Spring 2020

  • Legal documents signed during lockdown
  • Trustees’ decisions
  • Relationship property claims

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Rural eSpeaking - Winter 2020

  • Rural leases
  • National Environmental Standards for Freshwater 2020
  • Over the fence

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Fineprint - Winter 2020

In this issue:

  • Emission control
  • Our new normal post-COVID
  • Charities in New Zealand
  • Privacy in an ever-evolving digital age
  • Postscript

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Property Speaking - Winter 2020

  • Commercial leases post-COVID
  • Residential tenancies post-COVID
  • Property briefs

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Rural eSpeaking - Autumn 2020

  • COVID-19
  • Rural leases
  • Over the fence

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Fineprint - Autumn 2020

In this issue:

  • Going out on your own
  • How are enforceable penalties set out in contracts?
  • Solving relationship property issues by mediation
  • Family protection and wills
  • Postscriptscript

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Property Speaking - Autumn 2020

  • Adapting the agreements can help property developers
  • Agreement for sale and purchase of real estate
  • Property briefs

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Trust eSpeaking - Autumn 2020

  • Succession law in New Zealand
  • Endury Powers of Attorney
  • Claims on an estate

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Fineprint - Summer 2019

In this issue:

  • Smooth sailing this summer
  • Enjoy our waterways – but think water safety!
  • Rural fires
  • Trusts Act 2019
  • Postscript

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Property Speaking - Summer 2019

  • Leasing Commercial premises
  • Residential tenancies
  • Propert briefs

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Rural eSpeaking - Summer 2019

  • Action plan for Healthy Waterways
  • On-farm emmissions reduction
  • Over the fence

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Trust eSpeaking – Spring 2019

  • Trusts Act 2019
  • Grandparent Wills
  • Residential care subsidy thresholds, trusts and gifting

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