same-sex couples
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7 Financial Decisions for Same-sex Newlyweds
Marriage Equality means in Australia you're now free to marry who you love.
If you're a same-sex couple, there might be some unique challenges to meet with your partner for life
While LGBTQIA+ people are as diverse as the rest of the population, their shared experience and expectation of discrimination creates many common financial issues, unique to the LGBTQIA+ Community.
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Who can make emergency medical decisions for you?
Ever wonder who can make emergency medical decisions for you when you can’t?
Most adults are presumed to have the needed mental capacity to give consent themselves. But what happens when you can’t make decisions for yourself?
Though you may have a large circle of friends, emergencies demand a certain kind of relationship.
Being to answer this question will probably make you stop and consider the quality of your key relationships and whether you have the right legal documents in play today, as part of your backup plan.
The person 'next in line to make decisions' for you is often referred to as the person responsible and it might not be your next of kin.
Single
Single Age is no indicator of relationship status or financial responsibility. You can be young and starting out or older and established; and both enjoying living the single life. You might be single, single again, sometimes single, single with kids, single with pets or perhaps something a little more complicated. When it comes to...
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Partnered
Partnered Sharing life and love with someone can be twice as exciting. You might be partnered, partnered with pets, officially de facto, officially married (yay!), splitting expenses but sharing life, or joining incomes and combining financial lives too. You might be together but living apart, working towards a future with kids, thinking...
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Parenting
Parenting For today's LGBTQIA+ families, there are no accidental families. You might be parenting and single with kids, parenting solo with kids, parenting and partnered with kids, (yours, theirs and ours), dual parents with kids, co-parents, foster parents, adoptive parents, or even adoptive parents of kids with additional needs (just...
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