“Small Estate” in Ontario Now $150,000
Last Friday, February 12, 2021, the Attorney General for Ontario announced changes to the Estates Act that raise the limit …
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The GameStop Saga, Part I – Summarizing the Chaos
Late last month, I and many of my colleagues of the Millennial age were treated to a flurry of headlines
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It’s A Will! It’s A Testament! It’s a Last Will and Testament!!
A recent question on Jeopardy! led me to look into the phrase “last will and testament”. We all know what
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Could the pandemic override a patient’s rights under the Health Care Consent Act?
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown much of what we take for granted on its head. If recent reports are accurate
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Seniors’ Campuses of Care
When Covid-19 swept across Canada in March of 2020, it proved to be a virus that does not discriminate between
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Hull on Estates #606 – The Unorthodox Expansion of Pecore
This week on Hull on Estates, Stuart Clark and Jennifer Philpott discuss the unorthodox use of Pecore v. Pecore, 2007
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Re Crowley Estate – What happens when you miss a deadline for a Notice of Objection?
Re Crowley Estate, 2021 ONSC 582, raises an interesting question surrounding the potential impact of counsel missing a procedural deadline
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Dependant Support – Automatic stay on distributions from the estate
The commencement of an Application for support as a dependant under Part V of the Succession Law Reform Act (the
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Giving Back: Man Makes Substantial Bequest to French Village that Protected Him From Nazis in WWII
Eric Schwam died on December 25, 2020, at the age of 90. He died leaving a will that provided a
When will the Court Enforce a Settlement?
Sometimes when parties arrive at a settlement, notwithstanding that the settlement may objectively be in their interests, they may not
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