LEGAL INQUIRY COLUMN

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 53, 4 March 1943, Page 3

LEGAL INQUIRY COLUMN

WIDOW MOTHER—Whether or not you can compel your son to make you an allowance depends upon your own financial position. Your may nominate you as his next-of-kin. and no 5 * one except him can alter his nomination. R.Jj.A.—The error in the name does net invalidate the marriage. The lady is your wife and her children are legitimate and you have no ground for annulling the marriage or obtaining a divorce. URGENT. —So far as your own solicitor is concerned he is entitled to be paid his costs by you whether you recover the costs from your opponent or not. NOSEY.—If a man has £2000 cash in the bank he is not eligible for an age benefit. If, however, he has £2000 invested on mortgage at 4'.'2 per cent he will be entitled io an age benefit of approximately £38 per year, or similarly he may have a home worth £2000 and receive the full benefit. D.E—Subject to a residential qualification every person over the age of 65 years is entitled to universal superannuation no matter what his income may be. L.V, —(l and 2) A widow will receive the full benefit reduced by the excess over £78 a year of the income of herself and of that of her children under the age of 16 years. (3) It is the duty of the Department to reduce the benefit as soon as it learns that you are not eligible for the full benefit. (4) It is your duty to inform the Department of the change in the income of your family, but it is the income lor the year, not each week that matters. MRS. R.R.—You should inquire from the Customs Department whether a license as a manufacturing retailer for sale tax purposes is required in respect of the goods that you intend to deal in. ,