Polina Boyarchenko
Senior Legal Executive
Polina is a qualified Legal Executive with over 15 years of legal experience spanning litigation support, trust accounting, and residential conveyancing. She specialises in guiding first-home buyers through sales, purchases, and refinances - and has presented at Law Association property law conferences on Overseas Investment Act issues and dealing with banks in residential transactions.
Articles by Polina Boyarchenko
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Separating? Why You Should Check Whether You Own Property as Joint Tenants
If you and your ex still own property as joint tenants, your will cannot protect your share. Learn about the survivorship rule and how to sever under NZ law.
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Buying a Home with an Overseas Partner? Why a Trust Triggers OIA Consent
A couple buys their first home together - one a New Zealand citizen, the other on a residence visa. The purchase is clean. Then someone suggests a family trust, and the whole analysis changes.
