Ontario falling behind on digital assets legislation
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Testators do not get the last word over the guardianship of their minor children, but that shouldn’t stop you from naming your preferred caregivers just in case the worst should…
It’s sometimes hard to tell who is happier when generous parents present a large gift to their grateful child. But the mutual joy could be short lived if the transaction…
Determining who is a testator’s spouse is not as straightforward as it might seem at first glance. In a recent B.C. case, a Chinese woman failed in an attempt to…
A Henson Trust could help the parents of autistic children to continue supporting their loved ones after they’re gone. I recently had the privilege of speaking at an event put…