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How adverse possession works in every Australian state: the required period, the Torrens land rules, and why claiming government-owned land is barred or heavily restricted.
A guide to six areas of everyday Australian law: adverse possession, drone rules, jury duty, legal name change, dangerous dogs and fireworks, compared by state and territory.
Swiss maintenance, alimente and unterhalt, is needs based. The Bundesgericht barred percentage and table methods. Here is what sets the amount instead.
How joint parental responsibility works under Swiss law, the default for unmarried parents, and when a court will order sole custody instead.
An orientation to Swiss family law: no fault divorce, joint parental responsibility since 2014, and needs based maintenance with no percentage table.
Swiss divorce is no fault. How Art. 111, 112, 114 and 115 ZGB set the actual grounds, plus how pensions are split under Art. 122 and 123.
How to write a valid will in Switzerland under the ZGB: the holograph will, the public will, the Nottestament, revocation, and intestate succession.
How Swiss cantons tax inheritances: no federal tax, spouse exemptions everywhere, and where Schwyz, Obwalden and Graubünden differ.
How Switzerland's 2023 inheritance reform cut compulsory shares, dropped parents from the Pflichtteil, and widened what a will can freely direct.
Swiss inheritance law explained: wills, the 2023 Pflichtteil reform, cantonal inheritance tax, executors and advance inheritances.
How a Swiss executor is appointed under Art. 517 ZGB, what duties and pay the law actually sets, and what an heir can do about a bad one.
How Art. 626 ZGB treats a lifetime advance to a child differently from an ordinary gift, and how it interacts with the Pflichtteil.