Information About Estate Law Canada

This is my last post on this blog.After 12 years, 2,900 posts, 11,000 published comments, and more than 8,000,000 views, I’m closing the doors on this blog.Frankly, I can’t keep up! I’m running my law practice, which thankfully survived the pandemic. I’m still editing the Mensa Canada national magaz … Read more »

Executors and beneficiaries alike have questions about how estates and bankrupt beneficiaries go together. Executors want to know what they are legally required to do with a share of an estate that is payable to a person in bankruptcy. And of course the beneficiaries want to know whether they are go … Read more »

Once, a long time ago, a very smug person said to me that he had made his own will because he knew full well that lawyers only wanted people to make wills so lawyers can make more money. To that person I replied that if I want to make money, I will encourage everyone to make their own wills. Why? Be … Read more »

There are so many new, interesting cases these days that I can’t possibly blog about all of them. However, this one caught my eye because it addresses an issue that I hear about pretty often. This is the case of MacCallum v. Langille Estate, which was recently dealt with by the Nova Scotia Court of … Read more »

Have you ever heard that if you are named in a will but you are convicted of murdering the testator, you cannot inherit from the will? In Canada, this is true. But if that happens, then who inherits the murderer’s share?Recently, this very issue was in front of the BC Supreme Court. The deceased was … Read more »