All About Estates

Month: July 2021

Total 23 Posts

The Finance Strikes Back

As the story of Bill C-208 (intergenerational transfers) continues to evolve, I can’t help but make analogies to my favorite childhood trilogy.  The Star Wars trilogy was a dominating force in my childhood.  I lived and breathed the interesting stories produced by this vast universe created by George Lucas. In…

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Delirium, a few things to note:

I had previously written about hospital acquired delirium https://eldercaring.ca/hospital-acquired-delirium/ which I believe merits reposting. Delirium is one of the 3 big ‘D’s that we see with our older clients. The other ‘D’’s are dementia and depression. Over this past year, in addition to Covid- people still got sick; especially common…

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And then there was more…

Typical advice to an executor would outline his or her duties, explain how to go about completing them, and then would end with a statement something along the lines of “and then your job as an executor will be complete”.  And we all know that the role of an executor…

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