LEGAL INQUIRY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 287, 4 December 1941, Page 9

LEGAL INQUIRY

BBNEFTT 1139 —You may have a total income of «e receiving. additlon 10 benefit you INC3 aiumed7 A Pr ° flt °' 3/9 Per lodßer wUI OIJ ? jp KER -—lt is the duty or a trustee to h^«»i pr i° per ? ccounts from time to time to ? e fi j. Keneral - accounts once per 11 the trustee refuses to hS I, an account, you should write to fVS, aily calling on him to do so. It , r , e ® so " abl e time he still declines, action in the Court is your remedy. OT rfvokPd~bl thi 1 mad ? before marriage Is if bora o! y t he he m a"Se B or a ChUd D.E.F.- (1 and 2) The house is within the nroyfsions of the Fair Rents Act. Until a difCou?t n ™' hv hßs been either by the or by an agreement signed by the h ? factories, the landlord is not fhiil u 2 rase the rent - even though fiw- ,- , eer L a chan ße of tenant. (3) The lair rent of the property is about 26/. VV °Sm IE >?,„- (Mt \ Eden).—lf your mother left no will her estate should be divided In the P ,w£°th ?H 0f on ,?" tl \5 rd t0 her husband, and , equally between the children. If .hfrrf, only one child, that child takes twothirds. A statement made by your mother ?o lifetime that certain articles were to be given to certain members of the family s , ufflc J® nt , without a will to enable the S. f! J?„ claimed by those members of the family. It should not be difficult lor you to agree on a division of the articles. C^A "E' You ar e entitled to damages. The measure of damage is the difference In the value between the coat before it was damaged and after it was damaged. It might be more satisfactory to you if you could arrange for the garment to be repaired and some monetary compensation paid to you as

E.P.—Your tenancy will continue until you ean give vacant possession to the landlord unless the landlord agrees to accept your subtenant as his tenant. V.D.O.B—You should transfer the property only to the persons entitled to It. If you transfer to any one of those persons, you should do so only at the written request of all other persons entitled. It would be unwise to under2l P r °Perty to an Infant or person INTERESTED.— Hitherto applicants for ace beneIltj who had personal income in excess of £52 per year had their benefits reduced by the amount of their income in excess of £52 per year. As. however, the private income is liable to national security and social security taxes, the net result was that the total of the beneficiary's net income after paying taxes and the age benefit was less than the total Income and benefit of those persons whose Income did not exceed £52 per year. The Finance Act passed in October now empowers the Social Security Commissioner to mate adjustments in the amount of age benefits in such a way as to remove the anomaly. WHO'S WHO.—Y our letter does not make It clear whether by receiving rent from the sub-tenant you have accepted the sub-tonant as your tenant. If you have not done so you are not obliged to recognise the sub-tenant If the tenant by sub-letting is making an unreasonable profit, that is a ground UDon which you could possession.