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- Impact of Rising Real Estate Prices on Estate Planning
Buying a home, particularly a house, has become more expensive over the last few decades as the gap between the average income and the average home price in most jurisdictions in Canada has increased dramatically. With inflation thrown in to increase the cost of food and other necessities, homeowner … Read more »
- Trump and Ford: Tariffs, Ontario’s February 27th Election, and Your Business
Citing the need for a renewed mandate to tackle new tariffs announced by President Donald Trump, Ontario Premier Doug Ford confirmed that the Honourable Edith Dumont, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, has accepted his advice to dissolve the 43rd Parliament of the Province of Ontario as of Tuesday Janu … Read more »
- Agreements to Agree: How Rental Renewal Contracts Can Be Unenforceable
We are likely to have come across renewal clauses in contracts. Many contracts have terms that stipulate what happens when a contract reaches the end of its life. Some contracts renew automatically, some renew under updated terms, or some say that a renewal can be agreed with new terms. It is the la … Read more »
- Are signature cards created at the time of opening joint bank accounts held by a parent and adult child sufficient to rebut the presumption of resulting trust?
The presumption of resulting trust and joint accounts When an adult child holds a joint account with their parent, there is a presumption that when the parent dies, the money in the account at the time of their death does not pass to the adult child by right of survivorship but is held in resulting … Read more »
- Happy New Year from Mills & Mills LLP!
As we welcome 2025, Mills & Mills LLP proudly looks back on a year marked by significant achievements, well-deserved recognition, and impactful community involvement. In 2024, Mills & Mills LLP proudly celebrated a remarkable milestone of our 140th anniversary, commemorating over a century of dedica … Read more »