The Tips and Traps of Drafting a Financial Agreement

Overview
Ensuring a financial agreement is drafted so it is truly binding.
Financial agreements can be used by parties to resolve their financial affairs at the end of a relationship but are often used at the beginning of a relationship, where the challenges are greater than at the end of a relationship.
There are mistakes which are frequently made and defeat the purpose of the agreement.
This webinar looks at the traps and gives tips on drafting a financial agreement which will withstand challenges.
Learning Outcomes:
Attendees will gain an understanding of:
• The most common mistakes made when drafting and advising on financial agreements
• Circumstances where particular caution is required
• Actions to take when agreements which are at greater risk of being found not to be binding or of being set aside
Suited to:
Family lawyers, commercial lawyers, wills and estates lawyers, accountants, insolvency practitioners and financial planners
This On Demand includes:
- a recording of the webinar Event which can be viewed multiple times
- a PDF of the presenter’s PowerPoint
- a verbatim Transcript
- any supporting documentation
- a CPD Certificate after successful completion of the Knowledge Quiz
Course syllabus
3 lessons
- Video – The Tips and Traps of Drafting a Financial AgreementVideo
- FeedbackSurvey
- Knowledge TestTest
Your presenter
Jacky CampbellForte Family Lawyers
is a founding partner of Forte Family Lawyers and has practised as a lawyer specialising in family law for more than 30 years. In 2022, Jacky was recognised as a leading family lawyer in Melbourne by Doyle’s Guide to the Australian Legal Market. She is experienced in dealing with family law matters involving complex property matters.
Jacky is a contributing editor of the Wolters-Kluwer Australian Family Law & Practice and Australian Master Family Law Guide. She writes and updates several chapters for each including the financial agreement chapter.
Jacky is a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers and an Associate of the American Bar Association.