In recent years, family practitioners and estate litigators have struggled to confidently articulate the law regarding the effect of transfers of property into a spouse’s name. Upon…
Background Last spring, the Wills, Estates and Succession Act (“WESA”) came into force, modernizing estate law in British Columbia. WESA was created in order to provide greater…
No family is perfect, although on the continuum of dysfunction, there are certainly more dysfunctional families than others. Estate litigation usually occurs because of the longstanding dysfunction…
I recently attended a Canadian Bar Association, British Columbia (CBABC) Wills & Estates section meeting, where respected family law practitioner, John-Paul Boyd (JP Boyd) presented a seminar…
New case law from the Ontario Court of Appeal has provided that a mere “course of dealings” will allow one party to sever a joint tenancy into…
Cloud computing is all the rage in terms of running your actual computer system at your office, or as a backup storage solution. There are privacy considerations…
In this digital age, people are accumulating assets digitally, with no trace of physical evidence of these assets, when these assets had traditionally had a physical existence…
This is a case comment on the recent decision of Easingwood v. Cockcroft, with neutral citation of 2011 BCSC 1154. The judge presiding over the summary trial…
Purpose of the Act: To provide relief to spouses and children of a deceased’s person’s (the “Deceased”) estate when they have been partially or completely disinherited by…
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