The U.K. has ended its experiment with virtual witnessing after finding it did nothing to halt the country’s growing tide of will challenges.  According to the Daily Telegraph, remote witnessing…

A new law could bring some much-needed clarity to the rights of substitute decision makers when it comes to an incapable person’s beneficiary designations on things like RRSPs, life insurance…

In estates law, your spouse and kids may not be your only dependants.  Ontario’s Succession Law Reform Act allows dependants of the deceased to make a claim against the estate…

There’s no need to wait until retirement to get a will in place.  According to a new poll by Angus Reid, 50 per cent of adult Canadians do not have…