Monday, April 1st, 2013
Today is April Fools’ Day and I would be a fool to blog; you wouldn't know if I was serious or frivolous. Charles Dickens wrote "... the law is a ass—a idiot [sic]", but the law should never be fooled with and it is the fool who litigates without ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2013
Fraud is not restricted to the living. Occasionally, a fraudulent testamentary document makes an appearance and the question of validity becomes paramount. In that context, the issue of whether to retain a “handwriting expert” is raised.
The science of “handwriting analysis” can be divided into two branches: graphology, which examines handwriting ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2013
I recently came across two passing of accounts cases that I thought were worth sharing.
In Re Ronson Estate, 2000 CarswellOnt 1299 (ONSC), Mrs. Workman had been caring for her father before his death. Mrs. Workman’s sister, Mary, applied to compel Mrs. Workman to pass her accounts after he died. Mary ...
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