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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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.
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,…
Reverse mortgages are growing in popularity as the quality of the products available improves. Better Dwelling, a news outlet covering the housing market, reports that reverse mortgage debt has spiked in…