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…
Baby Boomers who are worried about how heirs will handle their inheritance have options when it comes to estate planning. With the country’s largest intergenerational transfer already underway – around…
Two wills are sometimes better than one. Since the late 1990s, testators in Ontario have been able to divide their property between two wills: one for assets that require probate,…
Even as the pandemic rages on, the world has never been smaller than it is now. Technological developments and ease of travel have allowed many of us to make and…
You don’t have to shout about your charitable giving from the rooftops to let your favourite non-profit know about an estate donation. Considering the number of hospital wings and university…
Marriage may no longer revoke a will, but it’s still a great time to revisit your estate plan. For a long time, Ontario has lagged behind much of the rest…
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 birth of a child means big changes for a parent’s life, and it also means big changes for their will. I always say that landmark life moments are a…
Surviving spouses whose partners die intestate are now entitled to the first $350,000 of the estate after the provincial government boosted the amount in its latest round of legal updates. …
Most people have felt their mortality a little more keenly than usual in the last year of pandemic living, and I’m sure many of us have wondered what would happen…
