Testators need to get specific if they want their will to revoke their beneficiary designations, according to Ontario’s Court of Appeal. In a recent decision involving a dispute among a deceased mother’s four children, the province’s top court found that a standard clause revoking “all Wills and Testamentary dispositions of every nature and
When it comes to your estate, your kids don’t need to be minor to be dependants. Ontario’s Succession Law Reform Act allows dependants of the deceased to make a claim against the estate if they are inadequately provided for in the will. Typically, these cases are brought by a spouse who was
Drafting your will is just the first step in the estate planning process. The second, (often-overlooked) stage involves keeping the will safe and available until the time comes for it to go into effect. In one recent B.C. case, the family of a B.C. man had to turn to the courts
Advance care planning can help people break the silence around end-of-life care. While societal attitudes towards sex and money have relaxed in the last few decades, there’s an argument to be made that death and end-of-life care are among the most pervasive taboos of our time. Statistics quoted by the Canadian Association
The recent arrest of a Thunder Bay man shows there are limits to the authority granted by a power of attorney for property. The ease and speed with which POAs can be drawn up place them easily among the most underrated instruments in the legal world, considering how critical they can become
Normally when I write about a multi-million-dollar estate, it’s in the context of an ugly fight between the beneficiaries of a wealthy person that has made the news or ended up in court. However, the B.C. Unclaimed Property Society recently made a different kind of news when it announced that
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