Family Law: Tips and Traps for Accountants
Issues covered include: recent family law decisions, case update, important cases, family law issues, accountant family law issues, tax issues in family law settlements, financial agreements, prenuptial agreements, pre-nuptial agreements
Description
Family breakdowns are times of enormous stress, and the financial implications of divorce and separation can be staggering. Your role as advisor is crucial as every single piece of information you prepare and provide can have a huge impact on the result. Join leading family lawyers and forensic accountants in Australia, to help you better understand your role as an accountant in the family law process. Learn how you can better assist your clients’ financial decisions before marriage, in settlement.
Chair: William Sinclair, Partner, Business Services, BDO
9.00am to 9.50am: The Most Important (and Interesting) Family Court Decisions that Impact Your Clients
- Property division: Stanford & Stanford
- Interim property settlement: Strahan & Strahan
- Assessing contributions of both parties: Fields & Smith
- Considering unsecured debts: Biltoft & Biltoft
- The rights of trustees in bankruptcy: Trustee of the property of G Lemnos v Lemnos
Presented by Melinda Winning, Partner, Barkus Doolan Family Lawyers; Accredited Specialist in Family Law; Leading Family & Divorce Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2019
9.50am to 10.45am: Assisting Your Client through the Family Law Process in a Most Effective Way
- Important role and duties of the accounting expert
- Dealing with the conflicts and picking sides
- Why trusts relevance are particularly important
- Why assessing a value is necessary even If there is no market
- How to assist your clients to negotiate a better outcome as a trusted adviser?
- When should a forensic accountant get involved?
Presented by Trevor Monaghan, Managing Director, Climax Valuations and Forensics
10.45am to 11.00am Morning Tea
11.00am to 11.55am: Tax Advocacy in Family Law Settlements and Litigation: Practical Assistance Accountants can Provide to Their Clients
- Accountants: value adding in family law
- Practical tips on tax losses, top-up tax and trust cloning
- Collaborative family law: how accountants can keep both clients post-divorce
Presented by Jamie Burreket, Managing Director, Broun Abrahams Burreket; Accredited Specialist in Family Law; Preeminent Family & Divorce Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2019
11.55am to 12.45pm: Financial Agreements: Planning the Relationship before the Marriage
- Are they worth it? The state of play regarding enforcement of financial agreements will be enforced
- Different types of financial agreements: the scope of the protection that can be provided to a party
- Advantages of ‘simple’ versus ‘complex’ agreements: when each is appropriate
- Recitals and disclosure schedules and how you can help
Presented by Sheridan Emerson, Partner, Pearson Emerson Meyer; Accredited Specialist in Family Law; Preeminent Family & Divorce Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2019
Venue
Cliftons Sydney
Level 3, 10 Spring Street
Sydney 2000
NSW
Australia
Directions
Nearby Public Transport:
Train Stations - Wynyard 400m OR Martin Place 500m
Bus Interchange - Clarence Street 450m
Ferry - Circular Quay 1.2km
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Accreditation
Attend and earn 3.5 CPD units
FASEA CPD Allocation: 3.5 hours in Technical Competence
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