What is a Rule 49 Offer to Settle?
Ontario is a jurisdiction where parties are encouraged to settle their legal disputes well before reaching the ultimate hearing of …
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Need Another Reason To Exercise? Here are 14
We all know exercise is good for you. However, a survey of recent studies compiled by Business Insider shows that
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A new kind of marriage – Family law and estate claims heard together
It is not uncommon for dependant’s support claims to be commenced contemporaneously with family law claims after death, with the
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Challenging a will can be expensive, time-consuming
Will disputes over lack of testamentary capacity or undue influence are becoming increasingly popular, Toronto estates and trusts lawyer Suzana Popovic-Montag tells the Globe and Mail .
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Looking to lose the cold, start the adventure? 10 places to escape as a retiree
It’s been a cold winter, and the snowbird culture is alive and well in Canada. The southern United States continues
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Hull on Estates #542- Harvey v Talon International Inc.: The Importance of Pleading Earnest
[powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/kirsten/HOE_542_Final.mp3″] In today’s podcast, Jonathon Kappy and Garrett Horrocks discuss the Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision in Harvey v
I’m not dead yet – Having the court declare you “undead”
There is a famous scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail where an individual tries to include his very
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Two times a cousin, two times the inheritance?
When I was a kid I loved the song “I’m my own grandpa” from the Muppets. For those of you unlucky
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It’s hard to read the label when you’re inside the bottle
By Ian Hull . One quality often overlooked in this frantic information era of texts, tweets, and instagrams is clarity. Our communications and responses are faster than ever, and you’ve likely seen first-hand how clarity can suffer. In a perfect world, we’d have a friend by our side objectively reviewing each communication and setting us straight when our message wasn’t clear.
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Partition of Estate Property? Not So Fast!
Considering an application for partition or sale of real property that was bequested to you? Then consider the effect of
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