A report released in early 2024 reported that the average adult internet user spends six hours and 40 minutes every day online.[1] The typical social media user spends just shy of two and a half hours on social media per day.[2] Though some internet and social media use can of…
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This Blog was written by: Kristie Smith, Estate and Trust Consultant, Scotia Wealth Management Summer is upon us, in all its glory. After a pandemic hiatus, my calendar is dotted with weddings to attend for friends and family members. But is this summer spectacle going the way of the dodo?…
This Blog was written by: Kristie Smith, Estate and Trust Consultant, Scotia Wealth Management Last week marked the 104th anniversary of death of Saginaw, Michigan lumber baron – and, evidently, eccentric millionaire – Wellington Burt, but only the 12th anniversary of the settlement and distribution of his estate. His is…
This Blog was written by: Kristie Smith, Estate and Trust Consultant, Scotia Wealth Management As we have all heard many times in the estate planning community, and as Benjamin Franklin famously remarked, nothing is certain but death and taxes. From the Covid era and then ‘back to normal’; from Elizabeth…
This Blog was written by: Kristie Smith, Estate and Trust Consultant, Scotia Wealth Management As we emerge from the Covid restriction era and a new normal comes into focus in our day-to-day lives, new symptoms and side effects of Covid are coming into view. In the estate planning realm, in…