Friday, May 17th, 2013
So it’s officially here - the first long weekend of the season; the start of the cottage season. What does this mean? It’s the right time to start thinking about some of the considerations related to dealing with the family cottage.
In this blog I want to chat about the income ...
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Thursday, May 9th, 2013
I thought that I would circle back to my series of blogs on commonly used estate planning words and phrases and some of the issues that they can create from time to time. Recently, I realized that some confusion can arise when individuals refer to “the 21 year period” in ...
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Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
In a previous blog, I summarized a case that provided insight into the legal steps that must be taken by family members in Ontario when an individual disappears and is presumed dead. The Ontario Declarations of Death Act, 2002 allows a court to declare an individual to be dead when ...
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