Bill C-208 boosts family business succession planning
Keeping your small business in the family just got a lot more attractive after the passage of recent tax law amendments. Bill C-208, one of the rare private member’s bills…
Estate planning for NFTs and other digital assets
You know that a tech trend has gone mainstream when it makes it onto Saturday Night Live. Earlier this year, the long-running comedy show tackled non-fungible tokens via the medium…
Blended families add complexity to estate planning
Keeping your beneficiary designations up to date can save your heirs time and money. Although they’re often forgotten by testators, the beneficiary designations on things like RRSPs, life insurance policies…
Check your easements before buying or building property
Owning your home is not a free pass to do what you want with the land around it. That’s why a key part of the searches lawyers conduct before a…
The family home in the estate plan
Fewer places are more important to a testator than the family home, but it doesn’t always get the attention it deserves in an estate plan. As typically the most valuable single…
Beware the Canada Revenue Agency when flipping houses
The Canada Revenue Agency could be watching when you flip your home, especially if it happens too often. If you’re lucky enough to get hold of some of the province’s…
Tread carefully when selling a house with a tenant
Putting your house on the market can be trying at the best of times, but stress levels step up a notch when the property you’re selling is occupied by a tenant.…
Protect yourself from title fraud
Many of us have been – or at least know – victims of car theft or jewellery theft…but what about house theft? It might sound a bit outlandish, but title fraud…
Estate law changes on the way
Big changes could be on the way for Ontario’s estate laws if the provincial government gets its way. The Ford administration recently introduced Bill 245 the Accelerating Access to Justice Act at Queen’s Park.
Small estate changes a small step in the right direction
Probate just got a little easier for some small estates. The provincial government recently announced that it would raise the limit for those considered “small estates” from $50,000 to $150,000. "Right now,…
