We have all seen the movie or read the book where someone takes on a new identity by searching a cemetery for a suitably aged candidate...

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The current housing market of Canada's largest cities makes home ownership an unrealistic dream for many people. One of the ways of...

If you guessed that the answer to the above question is "it depends" you are correct. As with many employment law and estate law issues,...

The test for whether a person has the capacity to create a will is whether, at the time the will is executed, the person understands and...

Currently, experts estimate that there are approximately 5 billion dollars in forgotten assets in Canada. These are assets where the...

What happens if the estate trustees find out that the estate doesn't have sufficient assets to pay its creditors? Who gets paid first?...

If you are named as an estate trustee along with another more sophisticated, experienced individual you may not sit back and rely on...