LEGAL INQUIRY COLUMN

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 238, 8 October 1942, Page 7

LEGAL INQUIRY COLUMN

BLUFF. —Obviously the figure has been put in the wrong place and should be higher up in the column. If you take the policy to the insurance company no doubt they will amend it. SOLDIER'S MOTHER.—As you do not disclose the scurce from which your income is received I am unable to advise you definitely. Assuming that the income is received from an annuity or interest from mortgages or rent, your age benefit will be approximately £52 per year. If the Income is received from shares having a value in excess of £500, your benefit will be reduced by a further amount of £1 for every £10 of the value of shares in excess of £500. ALBERTITE. —The mother cannot be deprived of the custody of the child. GARDENER. —If the plants are actually planted on your side of the boundary line, you may destroy them. If they are planted on the actual boundary you should notify your neighbour that you object to the plants and require them t<* be removed. If he does not remove them you may prosecute him at any time within six months of the planting. If he is convicted you may then destroy them. You should not assume that the fence Is exactly on the boundary line, but shduld make sure from the survey pegs where the boundary line is. P.C.—No doubt if the owners cared to do so they could have the rent increased. It would be a good policy, therefore, to agree to pay the extra charge they are now asking. MRS. P. —The dealer can be held to his contract to supply the suite at the price agreed upon. R.S.M.—I am afraid that you are bound by your bargain and must resign yourself to losing the deposit if the seller insists. The amount of your deposit would not normally cover the costs of selling the car. The fact that the transaction occurred on a Sunday is immaterial. CARING. —I think you have taken your husband's remarks too seriously. A wife is entitled to be maintained by her husband in a manner suitable to his station in life. She should therefore be provided with sufficient money to enable her to clothe herself adequately and to provide herself with reasonable pocketmoney for her own use. What is reasonable and adequate depends on the husband's income.