Szabo & Associates News & Updates

This month we attended an event hosted by the Parramatta Region Family Law Interagency which spoke about responding to technology facilitated violence and abuse.

The latest Prime International Residential Index (PIRI 100) from Knight Frank has revealed that two Australian cities, Sydney and Melbourne, are placed in the the list of top 20 residential locations.

House price rises in Australia’s state capitals rose by an average of 1.4% in February, and by 11.7% over the past twelve months, according to the latest Home Value Index from CoreLogic.

Consider this Scenario

In a case described as ‘the first of its kind’ by NSW Supreme Court judge Geoff Lindsay, 3 aboriginal sisters have won an appeal to be given access to the Estate of their half-brother, who died without leaving a Will. MP Linda Burney has successfully plead with a NSW Supreme Court Judge to rule in favour of three of her Aboriginal friends, who were looking to access their half-brother’s $200,000 Estate. Their brother, Mr. Howard Stanley Wilson was a member of the Stolen Generation, and was adopted by a white family in a ‘forced adoption’ shortly after his birth. Ms. Burney addressed a letter to the court, seeking to ensure that the women would inherit their half-brother’s Estate, in front of the members of the white family that adopted, and raised him. Ms. Burney, the first Aboriginal to be elected to the Australian House of Representatives, was a member of the NSW parliament that amended succession law, the changes to which allowed the sisters to make the claim in the first place.