Estate Trustees May Not Extort Releases From Beneficiaries
Sometimes a well-meaning (or not-so-well-meaning) estate trustee will try to circumvent the formal requirement of passing the estate's...
Acting In Own Interest Proves Costly for Estate Trustees
I have previously written that accepting the role of estate trustee can be more headache than honour. This is especially true when the...
You Snooze, You Might Lose Your Dependent's Claim
A recent Ontario Superior Court decision illustrates that if you delay in bringing a claim against an estate, asserting that you were a...