If you are one of the 10% of Australians who is part of a blended family or step-family, it is important to give careful thought to your estate plan to ensure no-one misses out, writes Marie Brownell, National Manager, Estate Planning, Equity Trustees.

Esteemed philanthropist, business leader, advocate and commentator Carol Schwartz AO has been recognised with the nation’s highest philanthropic honour, at the 2020 Australian Philanthropy Awards.

Children’s Medical Research Institute (CMRI) is helping to cure previously incurable genetic diseases.

Administering an estate can be overwhelming. Here are three main sources of assistance.

The importance of making binding beneficiary nominations.

Back in 1984, Magdalena Melov met Dr Mohammad Masoud Lodin when she visited his clinic in Sydney for a medical appointment. A relationship followed and by 1988 they were married and living together, and their daughter, Rebecca, was born.

When Danica Weeks drove her husband Paul to Perth International Airport on 7 March 2014, she didn’t know it would be the last time she would ever see him.

Ruben was born in 2012 and, as a result of medical negligence at his birth, has lived ever since with cerebral palsy.

One ordinary morning in January 2014, 26-year-old Chrys Barker waved to his dad and drove away from his family home.