We have created hyperlinks for all Matter Information Sheets currently available in LEAP Community. The Information Sheets are How to articles to assist you on matter setup and common form usage. Information Sheets that are matter specific are located in the LEAP Forms folder and Information Sheets that are relevant to a particular form are located immediately preceding the form.
Matter Information Sheets and hyperlinks for VIC are now available as follows:
The following forms are now available in LEAP in interactive PDF format in the Powers of Attorney forms folder:
The interactive short form [LL-VIC-WPA-066] allows for the appointment for one attorney and up to two alternative attorneys, whereas the interactive long form [LL-VIC-WPA-067] allows for the appointment for up to four attorney and up to three alternative attorneys for each attorney. Sections 6-8 and the Continuation sections of the form are currently not interactive – please complete these sections manually as required.
The LEAP toolbar within the Interactive PDF (generally on the side panel, More Tools) provides the option to Save & Close the PDF as well as to Update the PDF with any new data entered.
Clicking on Update will also re-run any questions should you need to change the responses to any questions – these forms contains prompts for the selection of principal, attorney and alternative attorneys (where applicable). [Read more…]
Following client feedback, the following sections of the Enduring Power of Attorney [LL-VIC-WPA-046 ] have been recoded:
Revocation (FILLIN 2)
The Revocation heading will always appear, to make elections regarding section 55 clear, when answering “A” to the FILLIN question the following wording will apply:
I specify that all previous Enduring Powers of Attorney made by me under Part XIA of the Instruments Act 1958 and the Guardianship and Administration Act 1986 and under the Powers of Attorney Act 2014 are revoked.
In addition, the section 55 notations will appear at all times.
Conditions and Instructions (FILLIN 4)
The Conditions and Instructions heading will always appear and the wording of the sentence will alter to say either “is/is not” depending on the answer to the FILLINS.
Example: [Read more…]
We have created and coded new Surrogacy forms located at: Victoria → Other Areas of Law → Surrogacy → Surrogacy → Substitute Parentage Applications OR Change of Name Applications.
The new forms are, as follows:
Substitute Parentage Applications
Change of Name Applications
We have reviewed and updated the following form:
We have created and coded the following forms, all of which can be located under the General Matter Type:
Building and Property
Guardianship and Administration
Legal Practice
Miscellaneous
We reviewed the forms. A minor change was made to:
We have conducted a review of the Children’s Court forms, as follows:
Review – minor amendments
We have made some necessary changes to your Sale and Purchase matter types for improved efficiency in your conveyancing matters.
Why?
We are continuing to work on a large project to change the functionality behind our forms to use our Word App entitled LEAP Document Manager (LDM). This change is necessary to make our forms compatible with Word Online.
These changes are in preparation of future enhancements to our LDM versions of the Settlement Adjustment Sheets/Statement of Adjustments (SAS), with the NSW SAS LDM due for release firstly shortly. Keep an eye on the Forms Blog for release notification. These enhanced versions will contain a time-efficient two-way write back functionality, whereby Directions (cheques) created within the LDM will automate directly to your LEAP matter and vice versa.
The write back functionality can however only map to ONE location in your LEAP matter and that is the relevant Sale / Purchase Reconciliation table. The Cheque Details table will therefore no longer default to any newly created matters.
Why write back to the Reconciliation table and NOT the Cheque details table? [Read more…]
The Guardianship and Administration Act 2019 (Vic) came into operation on 1 March 2020, repealing and replacing the Guardianship and Administration Act 1986 (Vic).
Extensive changes have been made to the VCAT Guardianship and Administration forms. The following forms have been updated:
