Wills & Estates Blog

Ontario is playing catch-up as other Canadian jurisdictions lead the way on digital assets legislation.  More and more of our lives are being lived online, but many testators are still prone to forgetting this new class of property when drafting a will. For the friends and family left behind, it

Canadians should take heed after Do-it-yourself wills were blamed for a post-pandemic spike in U.K. will challenges.  According to a news report by the London-based Financial Times, a freedom of information request by local law firm Nockolds revealed that almost 10,000 challenges were made to the distribution of inherited estates

Canadians with vacation plans should add an extra item to their pre-travel checklist: update your will. Every winter, millions of Canadians head south to escape the winter weather – some for months at a time. Few would give a second thought before purchasing travel insurance to protect themselves should the

Canada’s growing population of grey divorcees should make a new estate plan part of their fresh start in life.  While Statistics Canada reports that the country’s overall divorce rate has plunged in the last 30 years, one group has bucked the trend: over-50s.  In the early 1990s, roughly 13 of

In the worst cases, feuding family members will go to war in court, seizing on words and phrases in a loved one’s will that are open to interpretation, in order to raise doubts about whether the estate was distributed to the right beneficiaries.  In less contentious – but just as

Details matter when you’re drafting a will.  The case list in Ontario’s Superior Court is full of feuding family members who have seized on inaccuracies and ambiguities in a loved one’s will to challenge the inheritances left to their fellow beneficiaries.  But mistakes in a will don’t always need to