MCRS has offered us $64000 as a lump sum, but they will only be paying us $50 per fortnight if we don't accept it. So this lump sum would be our payments for them for approx 49 years! It deffinitely sounds good but I am still not sure. We also get MSBS payments from Comsuper which is about $890 per fortnight after tax. So I will have to sit next to him next time he speaks to them and make him ask whether this lump sum will affect those payments. If it doesn't then I support him in taking the kump sum, but if it cancels out everything I will have to say NO which always causes problems. We have a solicitor but he "has been busy with another case and hasn't started on ours yet", so I will have to get ALex to ring him and see what he thinks about it as well. I am just so confused by the whole thing. And this idea Alex has about the auctions is making him money at the monent; so far he has spent about $100 but has made about $400. SO so far so good. He really enjoys it so it is good at the moment. I am thinking of sending away for his birth certificate by myself and then just buying the book for him and telling him if he doesn't read it I won't be taking him anywhere. I know he is worried about driving, because the drivers down here are terrible! But I don't think it should all be up to me either. Maybe I will tell him to catch a bus if he won't get his licence. Wish me luck...