A relationship breakdown can be the most testing and heart-wrenching event you’ll face across your entire lifetime – especially if there are children involved.
I’ve had an active interest in property transactions for many years from different vantage points, both as a lawyer and as a bank lender. So I’ve seen property transactions go both good and bad, and everything in between, from a number of perspectives.
According to Sir Richard Branson, all an entrepreneur really needs to enter a new industry is a willingness to learn. Day-in, day-out here at Aspiring Law, we advise and support enterprises ranging from innovative start-ups to companies with decades of trading behind them.
It’s an oft-quoted figure bandied about when it comes to marriage break-ups: half of us who make it to the altar will divorce. Ah, but nay, say our national number crunchers; that’s actually quite the urban myth.
As we begin to look at 2016, the year that was, Clayton v Clayton will go down in the history books as one of the most significant legal happenings of the year - and one of the most defining cases in New Zealand relationship property and trust law history.
The rules around lending in New Zealand are changing about as fast as homes are flying off the market. Here, our Solicitor, Sophie Diedrichs, answers some of the most common questions surrounding developments.
Are you already in business, or thinking of taking the leap and buying or establishing your own venture? If so, and you haven’t already, we’d love you to consider joining our special family of business clients: BizClubbers.