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Trustees – it’s time to start gathering information

By Jennifer Campbell • November 17, 2023 • 0 Comments

With 6 weeks until the end of 2023, it is a good time to remind trustees of their obligations in respect of the trusts that they are responsible for managing and administering. Last year, I wrote a blog where I reminded trustees of discretionary trusts of the importance of documenting…

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Revisiting the “Rule of Convenience”

By Betty Laidlaw • August 4, 2023 • 0 Comments

Todays blog has been co-written with Murray Braithwaite, Partner, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Toronto There has been case law in the past two years where the court has used its discretion to vary the rate of interest on legacies that have not been paid within the “executor’s year” from 5%…

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How Much Should You Leave To Your Children And When?

By Tamar Silverbrook • June 9, 2023 • 0 Comments

This week, I had a great opportunity to sit down with Andy Jeffery, Vice President, Family Office Advisory, at Northwood Family Office,[1] to discuss a question frequently raised by clients; “How much should I leave my children and when?” Below we distill our discussion into five questions, providing you with…

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Tax Implications for Exempt Life Insurance Policies

By Fasken • April 14, 2023 • 0 Comments

Today’s blog post was written by Pritika Deepak, an Associate at Fasken LLP. This is Part II of a three-part blog series which provides a high-level overview of some of the tax implications to consider, with respect to certain assets held at death. Part I, which addresses RRSPs can be…

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Estate planning and TOSI – Part II

By John Oakey • October 13, 2020 • 0 Comments

In my previous blog, Estate planning and TOSI Part I, I introduced the concept of the tax on split income (TOSI) continuity rules which are extremely important when estate planning.  The objective of the continuity rules is to afford the beneficiary, who would not have an excluded amount of their…

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Estate planning and TOSI – Part I

By John Oakey • September 29, 2020 • 0 Comments

Finance stated that the purpose of the revised tax on split income (TOSI) regime, which became effective January 1, 2018 was “to limit the ability of owners of private corporations to lower their personal income taxes by sprinkling their income to family members who do not really contribute to the business.”[1] The objectives related…

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Accommodating Beneficiaries of a Will With Differing Gender Identities

By Demetre Vasilounis • April 17, 2020 • 2 Comments
The symbol for people who identify as non-binary.

Accommodating Beneficiaries With Differing Gender Identities Our society is becoming increasingly attuned to accommodating the needs of people who have various gender identities, whether such people are transgender, queer, or do not identify as one specific gender. For example, Ontario announced a few years ago that its residents can use…

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Could a “non-human person” ever be a beneficiary of a will?

By Brittany Sud • March 22, 2019 • 0 Comments

Today’s blog comes to you from Student-at-Law, Demetre Vasilounis. In 2013, the Government of India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests ignited a discussion in the international legal community by deciding to prohibit dolphinariums as well as any enterprise that involves the import or capture of cetacean species (dolphins, whales, porpoises) for the…

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What do Two Million Canadians and Stieg Larsson have in common? For the answer to this question, read on.

By Corina Weigl • October 7, 2010

Stieg Larsson, author of the Millennium Trilogy of crime novels, ultimately died without a Will. This left his long term lover Eva Gabrielsson without any claim to his Estate which under Swedish law would pass to his father and brother.

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