What if someone who could have been ordered to pay you support, dies and leaves you nothing in their will, or leaves no will at all. When you are an Estate Litigation Lawyers, this is a common situation. A Will and Estates Lawyers must inquire about these factors when drafting a will and power of […]
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The decision by the Ontario Court of Appeal, which upheld the trial decision of Justice Chown in the Stewart Estate v. Stewart 2025 ONCA 575, is a clear lesson that preparing a Will requires the hand of an experienced Wills and Probate Lawyer rather than the casual work by a Jack of all trades lawyer, […]
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The recent case in Bratusa v. Doersam 2025, ONSC 4726, involved a common law spouse and her young daughter seeking support from a Canadian who died in Costa Rica in September of 2024.He and the applicant had lived in Costa Rica for many years. Nonetheless, she brought an action in Ontario asking for dependent relief […]
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The lifetime capital gains exemption (“LCGE”) is an important one for our readers to be aware of. It is an incentive by the federal government to encourage entrepreneurs to build up a business, and when they sell it, the first $1.25 million of the profit that they have earned by building up the business is […]
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Drafting a Will is not a job for a layman, an online program or even a generalist lawyer who dabbles in drafting Wills. One of the examples of the need for a someone who only practices as a Wills Estate and Powers of Attorney lawyer, is the effect of The Successional Reform Act, section 31 […]
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Justice Fred Myers, a Judge that has been featured in many of our other blog articles, rendered an incredibly important decision in the case of Fisher v. Danilunas 2025 ONSC 4359. This has captured the attention of Powers of Attorney Lawyers and Estate Litigation Lawyers. It held that a Order for guardianship made in England […]
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While titling this blog article as part 620 is a bit tongue and cheek, there is some validity to that number. We have posted a number of blog articles on the presumption of resulting trust, (use the search window to find all of them) which all relate back to the 2007 decision by the Supreme […]
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More from the perspective of Will and Estate Lawyers. An executor is deemed to have a fiduciary obligation to the estate’s beneficiaries. A fiduciary relationship calls for the highest level of trust and responsibility upon an individual.. Sometimes an executor, often a family member, will want to buy one of the assets of the estate […]
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We have written a number of times on the legal concept of the presumption of resulting trust. Using the search function, you can easily locate them within our blog articles. This subject is unfortunately a great money maker for Estate Litigation lawyers. One of the client’s of our team of Will and Estate lawyers recently […]
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Will and Estate Lawyers commonly prepare for couples, Wills that may be described as mirror Wills. In that sense, the parties provide the very same provisions for the distribution of their estate. Commonly to each other and then their children. However, a Will is an individual document not a contract. Justice Cronk in the Ontario […]
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