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Putting One’s Personal Affairs in Order: an Estate Planning Overview – Vol. 8: Court Appointed Guardian of the Person
May 17th, 2012

In my last blog, I wrote about the hierarchy of decision-makers that the law provides in the event you are incapable of making your own medical decisions and do not have a valid Power of Attorney for Personal Care.  The alternative is for an interested person (a friend or relative, most likely), to... Read more »

Substituted Service and Facebook
May 10th, 2012

In a previous post, David Mills discussed an Ontario case where service of documents was allowed via facebook.  A case from New Brunswick, P. (J.R.) v. D. (D.), has agreed with this method of service and recently allowed service via facebook in a family law matter. This was a motion before Ju... Read more »

Putting One’s Personal Affairs in Order: an Estate Planning Overview – Vol. 7: Treatment Decisions Where There is no Power of Attorney for Personal Care
May 4th, 2012

In the last blog in this series, I discussed Powers of Attorney for Personal Care.  What happens if you don’t have one and are then in a situation where medical instructions need to be given and you are incapable of doing so?  Who is entitled to give those instructions on your behalf? If you... Read more »

Skype and Cross Examination
April 24th, 2012

Justice Murray of the Ontario Court of Justice recently made a decision that one party in the litigation could be cross examined by Skype.  In Paiva v. Corpening, the party to be cross examined lived in Denmark. Justice Murray previously ordered that the evidence in chief go in by affidavit, in... Read more »

Putting One’s Personal Affairs in Order: an Estate Planning Overview – Vol. 6: Powers of Attorney for Personal Care
April 23rd, 2012

Today’s blog in this continuing “overview” series is on Powers of Attorney for Personal Care. A person with mental capacity may appoint one or more attorneys for personal care to make decisions about personal and health care and to give consent to treatment, but the attorneys may a... Read more »

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