Risk and Reward to Remote Online Witnessing Canada
In a post-COVID legal landscape, remote online witnessing is here… so what are the risks? Going forward, testators, estate planners, and attorneys should be aware of the possibilities of fraud, undue influence, technical issues, and the legal unknowns of this new development in estates and wills procedures.
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Recent Changes To Estates And Civil Procedure
These changes arguably create more conveniences as the estate administration process becomes simpler, and new clarifications defog questions relating to limitation periods.
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Estate Of Everhart: The Right To Formal Probate In Colorado
The Colorado Court of Appeal adds clarifies the responses available to formal probate petitions. What impact does this have for practitioners opening proceedings?
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Pfisterer Estate: How Not To Commit A Breach Of Trust
The recent Pfisterer Estate demonstrates that acting in the estate's best interest may not always absolve a trustee from a breach of trust.
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Ontario Small Estates Certificate
A simplified probate process for Ontario estates valued at up to $150,000, will go into effect on April 1st, 2021.
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Ontario Estate Planning, Marriages, And Bill 245
Many of Bill 245 amendments and sections hope to improve access to justice by simplifying the estate planning and administration process.
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