Wills & Estates
What Your Will Should Say About Your Digital Assets
Do the wills you are drafting for your clients deal with their digital assets? Does your will deal with your digital assets (personally and for your practice)? I’m guessing that your answers to both these questions is “No.” Sharon Nelson did an excellent post on this hot topic on the Ride The Lightning blog. Until… Read More »
Categories: Wills & Estates, TechnologyAvoiding Confusion And Claims When Making Charitable Bequests
This post comes from the Practice Tip column in the most recent issue of LAWPRO Magazine (which will hit the desks of Ontario lawyers in a few weeks). A hat tip to LAWPRO claims counsel Pauline Sheps for suggesting this great tip – unfortunately it is a malpractice claim scenario she sees all too often…. Read More »
Categories: Wills & EstatesForm Of Order In Applications To Prove A Lost Will Under Ontario Rule 75.02
Cross-posted on the SLAW blog (www.slaw.ca) As part of a brief endorsement dated November 3, 2009 in RE: IN THE ESTATE OF Evelyn O’Reilly, et. al., Justice D. M. Brown of the Superior Court Of Justice–Ontario provided some useful direction on the form and content of an order in applications to prove a lost will… Read More »
Categories: Precedents, Wills & Estates