Tag Archive for: legal advice

Strata schemes in NSW are now required to lodge an annual return with the Department of Fair Trading. We cover what you need to do to comply.

Blended families can create challenges from an estate planning perspective particularly where a person wants to provide for their partner and also for their own children.

Here in NSW, when deciding who is going to take care of your children in the event of your death, what you’re deciding is who you are going to appoint as the Guardian(s) of your minor children.

Challenging a Will with a Family Provision Claim… What can we learn from the movie Knives Out in relation to the Australian judicial system.

Are developers required to seek consent before operating cranes over adjoining properties? The short answer is YES. In most circumstances, individual landowners and owners corporations will own the airspace above their property and a developer will require your consent to swing a crane through that airspace.

Residential Apartment Buildings Act (RABA) – how does it fit into the grand scheme of building regulation?

Strata schemes in New South Wales will be required to lodge an annual return with the Department of Fair Trading from 1 May 2022. Failure to do so may give rise to a fine for the owners corporation.

Two lot strata schemes are very common these days, however they do present unique and special challenges compared to your ordinary apartment/villa type strata schemes. Our blog takes a look at these in further detail.

“You can’t park here, it’s visitor parking only”…. It’s a comment that rings out regularly throughout strata schemes, sometimes in the form of a note on the windscreen, but owners corporations are rarely aware of their power to prevent residents from parking in visitor car spaces. This parking issue will only become more widespread as the number of large strata schemes increase, as visitor car spaces are often required as part of an application to develop and construct a new residential strata scheme.

Our blog takes a look at abandoned vehicles on Common Property and what your rights are in regards to this.